Arab culture and the novel : genre, identity and agency in Egyptian fiction / Muhammad Siddiq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siddiq, Muhammad.

Series:

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 16.

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic fiction--Egypt--History and criticism.

Arabic fiction.

Arabic fiction--Social aspects.

Literature and society.

Egypt.

Literature and society--Egypt.

Arabic fiction--Social aspects--Egypt.

Physical Description:

xxi, 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes - religious, social, political, and psychological - of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries.

Contents:

1. A genre at war: literary form and historical agency

2. Tangents of identity: the poetics of space in the Egyptian novel

3. Divining identities: religion and the Egyptian novel

4. Questionable subjects: individuality, representation, and the novel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780415772600

0415772605

9780203961148

0203961145

OCLC:

76262501

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