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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamdar, Abir, author.

Series:

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.

Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--20th century.

Arabic literature.

Women with disabilities in literature.

Sick in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

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-

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815652908

0815652909

OCLC:

897017231