Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel : Egypt, 1892-2008 / Hoda Elsadda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El Sadda, Hoda.

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic fiction--Egypt--History and criticism.

Arabic fiction.

Arabic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Masculinity in literature.

Women in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Politics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egytian novel. Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone largely unnoticed. Now, Hoda Elsadda bucks that trend. Foregrounding voices that have been marginalised alongside canonical works, she engages with new directions in the novel tradition.

Contents:

Introduction: gender, nation, and the canon of the Arabic novel

Beginnings: discourses on ideal manhood and ideal womanhood

The new man: conflicting masculinities in the fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini, and al-Rafi'i

Tawfiq al-Hakim and the civilizational novel

Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy: a national allegory

Latifa al-Zayyat: gender and nationalist politics

Defeated masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim

The personal is political: debating the new writing in the 1990s

The postcolonial nomadic novel

Liminal spaces/liminal identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy, and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din

Postscript: after Tahrir: imagining otherwise.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-6918-3

OCLC:

818846743