Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel : : Egypt, 1892-2008 / / Hoda Elsadda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Elsadda, Hoda,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editor’s Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Transliteration and Translation --; Introduction. Gender, Nation, and the Canon of the Arabic Novel --; Part One --; 1. Beginnings --; 2. The New Man --; 3. Tawfiq al-Hakim and the Civilizational Novel --; Part Two --; 4. Naguib Mahfouz’s Trilogy --; 5. Latifa al-Zayyat --; 6. Defeated Masculinities --; Part Three --; 7. The Personal Is Political --; 8. The Postcolonial Nomadic Novel --; 9. Liminal Spaces/Liminal Identities --; Postscript After Tahrir: Imagining Otherwise --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748669189; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748669189
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hoda Elsadda.

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egyptian novelGender 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.Sheds new light on key debates, including: The project of nation-building in the modern periodThe process of inclusion and exclusion in canon formationThe geopolitics of definitions of national or cultural identity in the global worldThe conceptual discourses on gender and nationThe meaning of national identity in a global context