Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel : Egypt 1892-2007

ISBN-13: 9780748639267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Hoda Elsadda

Opis

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egytian novel. Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone largely unnoticed. Now, Hoda Elsadda bucks that trend.Foregrounding voices that have been marginalised alongside canonical works, she engages with new directions in the novel tradition.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and translation; Introduction: Gender, nation and the canon of the Arabic novel; Part One: Chapter 1: Beginnings: Discourses on Ideal Manhood and Ideal Womanhood; Chapter 2: The New Man: Conflicting Masculinities in the Fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini and a-Rafi'I; Chapter 3: Tawfiq al-Hakim and the Civilizational Novel; Part Two: Chapter 4: Naguib Mahfouz's Trilogy: A National Allegory; Chapter 5: Latifa al-Zayyat: Gender and Nationalist Politics; Chapter 6: Defeated Masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim; Part Three: Chapter 7: The Personal is Political: Debating the New Writing in the 1990s; Chapter 8: The Postcolonial Nomadic Novel; Chapter 9: Liminal Spaces/ Liminal Identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din; Conclusion; Arabic References; English References; Index.