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02926aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 5C3F0850DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210609t20222022enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780755637621 020 $a 0755637623 035 $a (OCoLC)1255596976 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d MNU $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NYP $d SILO 050 4 $a PJ8098 $b .B47 2022 082 04 $a 892.7309353 $2 23 100 1 $a Berg, Lovisa, $e author. 245 10 $a Masculinity and Syrian fiction : $b gender, society, and the female gaze / $c Lovisa Berg 264 1 $a London : $b I B Tauris, $c 2022 300 $a ix, 212 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliography (pages 187-203) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Dream Masculinity-or the Male as a Vehicle for Self-Realisation -- Politically and Ideologically Influenced Masculinities -- Changing Masculinity - a Transformation from Solution to Problem -- Masculinity - a Demanding Rolse to Play -- Female Masculinity and Male Femininity - the Exploration of Gender Formulation -- Conclusion 520 $a What can novels tell us about masculinity in Syria? In this book, Lovisa Berg explores over 20 Syrian novels covering the last 50 years of the 20th century. Uniquely, she examines only female writers in order to gauge the changing ways in which Syrian women perceived the function of masculinity, and the impact certain attitudes towards masculinity have on men, women, children and Syrian society, from a female perspective. The works of writers from Kulit Khuri to Usayma Darwish are analysed to explore changing attitudes to gender in Syria and the Middle East, as well as the political upheavals within the country and region. We see the idealistically portrayed men in the novels of female authors in the 1950s give way in time to a more critical depictions of patriarchy. Above all, we see through the use of novels a plethora of critiques of masculine hegemony in Syrian society, the authors of which are able with the use of fiction to reorganise and question maleness in a way denied to them in reality. This book will be of interest to scholars of Contemporary Syrian and Arabic Literature, Masculinity Studies and Women's Studies. -- back cover 650 0 $a Arabic fiction $z Syria $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Arabic fiction $z Syria $x Women authors. 650 0 $a Masculinity in literature. 650 7 $a Arabic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812274 650 7 $a Arabic fiction $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812282 650 7 $a Masculinity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01011040 651 7 $a Syria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208757 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780755637645 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025415.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C3F0850DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search