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

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
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Physical Description:xlii, 261 p.
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Table of 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.