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Author:

Hamdar, Abir.

Title:

The female suffering body : illness and disability in modern Arabic literature / Abir Hamdar.

Edition:

First edition

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 166 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Arabic literature--20th century.
Women with disabilities in literature.
Sick in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-156) and index.

Contents:

The silent subject : illness and disability in male writing, 1950-2000 -- Mediating voices : illness and disability in female writing, 1950-2000 -- Re-writing the suffering body : 2000-

Summary:

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.

Series:

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East

ISBN:

0815633653
9780815633655

OCLC:

(OCoLC)878299179

LCCN:

2014955102

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)