Screen LibraryGender, nation, and the Arabic novel：Egypt, 1892-2008
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Syracuse University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Syracuse, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xlii, 261 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780815632962 (cloth : alk. paper) 0815632967 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I411 |
| CLC: | I411.45 |
| Call Number: | I411.45/E491 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-239) and index. 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 Muha |