TY - BOOK AU - El Sadda,Hoda TI - Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel: Egypt, 1892-2008 T2 - Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature SN - 9780748669189 AV - PJ8212 .E53 2012eb U1 - 892.7360935 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Arabic fiction KW - Egypt KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Politics in literature KW - fast KW - RELIGION KW - Islam KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / African KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10624598 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgt5v UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502848 ER -