Blindness and Autobiography : : Al-Ayyam of Taha Husayn / / Fedwa Malti-Douglas.
The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the sustained literary analysis here presented by Fedwa Ma...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. BLINDNESS AND SOCIETY
- Chapter One. Blindness I: Recognition
- Chapter Two. Blindness II: Conflict
- Chapter Three. Blindness III: Resolution
- Chapter Four. Power
- Chapter Five. Traditional/Modern, East/West
- PART II. BLINDNESS AND WRITING
- Chapter Six. Narration
- Chapter Seven. Blind Writing, Blind Rhetoric
- Chapter Eight. Humor
- Chapter Nine. Narrative Techniques
- Chapter Ten. Time
- Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter