Title: Literature, gender, and nation-building in nineteenth-century Egypt : the life and works of ʹAísha Taymur /
Authors: Hatem, Mervat Fayez.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Taymūrīyah, ʻĀʼishah, Criticism and interpretation.; Taymūrīyah, ʻĀʼishah, Political and social views.; Women authors, Arab Egypt Political and social views.; Politics and literature Egypt History; Literature and society Egypt History; Women and literature Egypt History; Sex role Egypt History; Islam Middle East Egypt.; LITERARY CRITICISM African.; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Middle East Egypt.; Literature and society; Literature.; Political and social views.; Politics and literature; Sex role; Women and literature; Women authors, Arab Political and social views.
Abstract: This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national community. Through the discussion of the life and works of℗¡ the prominent writer À'isha Taymur, ℗¡Hatem gives insight℗¡into how literature and the changing gender roles of women and men contributed to the definition and development of a sense of community. ℗¡
Contents: Why study ʹAísha Taymur? -- The changing Islamic-Ottoman world of the Taymur family -- Literature and nation-building in the nineteenth-century Egypt -- The crisis and reform of the Islamic dynastic government and society -- From fiction to social criticism -- Hilyat al-Tiraz : hybridity, the intersection of the old and the new, and private and public struggles -- The finest of her class : Taymur on literature, gender, and nation-building.