Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel Egypt, 1892-2008
by
El Sadda, Hoda.
Title
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Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel Egypt, 1892-2008
Author
:
El Sadda, Hoda.
Personal Author
:
El Sadda, Hoda.
Publication Information
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
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xlii, 261 p.
Series
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Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
Contents
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Introduction: gender, nation, and the canon of the Arabic novel -- Beginnings: discourses on ideal manhood and ideal womanhood -- The new man: conflicting masculinities in the fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini, and al-Rafi'i -- Tawfiq al-Hakim and the civilizational novel -- Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy: a national allegory -- Latifa al-Zayyat: gender and nationalist politics -- Defeated masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim -- The personal is political: debating the new writing in the 1990s -- The postcolonial nomadic novel -- Liminal spaces/liminal identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy, and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din -- Postscript: after Tahrir: imagining otherwise.
Subject Term
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Arabic fiction -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
Arabic fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Arabic fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Women in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Corporate Author
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ProQuest (Firm)
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 2276019-1001 | PJ8212 .E53 2012 | Ebrary E-Books |