Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel
Subtitle: Egypt, 1892-2008
By: Hoda Elsadda
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815632962
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; Nationalism in literature; Arabic fiction; History and criticism; Politics in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: gender, nation, and the canon of the Arabic novel; title: Beginnings: discourses on ideal manhood and ideal womanhood; title: The new man: conflicting masculinities in the fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini, and al-Rafi'i; title: Tawfiq al-Hakim and the civilizational novel; title: Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy: a national allegory; title: Latifa al-Zayyat: gender and nationalist politics; title: Defeated masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim; title: The personal is political: debating the new writing in the 1990s; title: The postcolonial nomadic novel; title: Liminal spaces/liminal identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy, and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din; title: Postscript: after Tahrir: imagining otherwise.