Arab culture and the novel
Subtitle: gender, identity and agency in Egyptian fiction
By: Muhammad Siddiq.
Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415772600; 9780203961148
Subjects: Arabic fiction -- Egypt -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Egypt; Arabic fiction -- Social aspects -- Egypt
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. A genre at war: literary form and historical agency; title: 2. Tangents of identity: the poetics of space in the Egyptian novel; title: 3. Divining identities: religion and the Egyptian novel; title: 4. Questionable subjects: individuality, representation, and the novel.