Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / Saloua Aali Ben Zahra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities in literature.

Literature, Modern--Muslim authors--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

People with disabilities in motion pictures.

Muslim authors.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 139 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction

Al Qur'an's teachings with respect to the disabled

The Tunisian deaf mute through the lens of American Orientalism

Tunisian camera's treatment of disability

The disabled native: ressource humaine for the French: a literary study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza

The case of female characters with disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "cure or kill": a disability study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable [Sand child]

Disability and shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: what it means to be a Pakistani disabled postcolonial woman

The Egyptian visually-challenged Sheikh Husni's treatment of blindness in the Egyptian film Al Kitkat

Iraqi in Paris: speaking volumes: the bond in deafness of an Iraqi father and son

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali author. Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities

ISBN:

9781498569576

1498569579

9781498569583

1498569587

OCLC:

1002835801