Male domination, female revolt
Subtitle: race, class, and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction
By: by Ishaq Tijani.
Series: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world -- v. 8
Publisher: Briil; Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9789004167797
Subjects: Arabic fiction -- Kuwait -- History and criticism; Arabic fiction -- Women authors -- History and  criticism; Arabic fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Race in literature; Social classes in literature; Sex role in literature; Patriarchy in literature
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern Arabic fiction in Kuwait : emergence and development; title: The Kuwaiti female literary tradition : an overview; title: Male domination, female fury in Kuwaiti women's short stories; title: Subverting patriarchy : women's defiance and solidarity in Layla al-'Uthman's Wasmiyya takhruj min al-bahar; title: Race, class, war, and gender in Tayyiba al-Ibrahim's Mudhakkirat khadim; title: Culture and gender : sexuality, femininity, and identity in Fawziyya S. al-Salim's Muzun.