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Author:

El Sadda, Hoda.

Title:

Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel : Egypt, 1892-2008 / Hoda Elsadda.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xlii, 261 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Arabic fiction--Egypt--History and criticism.
Arabic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Arabic fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Women in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-239) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: gender, nation, and the canon of the Arabic novel -- Beginnings: discourses on ideal manhood and ideal womanhood -- The new man: conflicting masculinities in the fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini, and al-Rafi'i -- Tawfiq al-Hakim and the civilizational novel -- Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy: a national allegory -- Latifa al-Zayyat: gender and nationalist politics -- Defeated masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim -- The personal is political: debating the new writing in the 1990s -- The postcolonial nomadic novel -- Liminal spaces/liminal identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy, and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din -- Postscript: after Tahrir: imagining otherwise.

ISBN:

0815632967 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815632962 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)759173911

LCCN:

2012017586

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)