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