Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415772600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str.

Muhammad Siddiq

Opis

This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes - religious, social, political, and psychological - of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries.

Spis treści

1. A Genre at War: Literary Form and Historical Agency  2. Tangents of Identity: The Poetics of Space in the Egyptian Novel  3. Divining Identities: Religion and the Egyptian Novel  4. Questionable Subjects: Individuality, Representation, and the Novel

O autorze

Muhammad Siddiq is Associate Professor at the Department for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.