Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel

El Sadda, Hoda.

Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel Egypt, 1892-2008 / [electronic resource] : Hoda Elsadda. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (xlii, 261 p.) - Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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22573/ctt343035 JSTOR


1900 - 2099


Arabic fiction--History and criticism.--Egypt
Arabic fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Arabic fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Masculinity in literature.
Women in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature.
Arabic fiction.
Masculinity in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature.
Women in literature.
RELIGION--Islam--General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / African


Egypt.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PJ8212 / .E53 2012eb

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