Egypt, 1892-2008El Sadda, Hoda.creatortextbibliographyElectronic books.Criticism, interpretation, etc.stkEdinburghEdinburgh University Pressc20122012monographiceng

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1 online resource (xlii, 261 p.)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.Hoda Elsadda.Includes bibliographical references and index.f-ua---Arabic fictionEgyptHistory and criticismArabic fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismArabic fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureWomen in literatureNationalism in literaturePolitics in literatureArabic fictionMasculinity in literatureNationalism in literaturePolitics in literatureWomen in literatureEgyptRELIGIONIslamGeneralLITERARY CRITICISM / African 1900 - 2099 fast PJ8212 .E53 2012eb892.7360935El Sadda, Hoda.Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012(DLC) 20124942629780748669189074866918322573/ctt343035 JSTORhttp://site.ebrary.com/id/10624598http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgt5vhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502848http://site.ebrary.com/id/10624598http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgt5vhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502848E7B12090720200709055644.0ocn823739749eng