Female Suffering Body
Subtitle: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780815633655
Subjects: Arabic literature
Description: Examines the absence of representations of female illness in Arab literature, exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female sickness and disability have transformed in the modern period and finds that over the course of 60 years women with physical ailments have moved from the margins to the center of Arabic literature.