Male domination, female revolt : : race, class, and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction / / by Ishaq Tijani.

• Superior document: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, v. 8
• Author: Tijani, Ishaq.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (179 p.)
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2005.

This book investigates various forms of women’s resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women’s fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women—born before or in the first half of the twentieth century—as resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change.

Table of Contents

Modern Arabic fiction in Kuwait : emergence and development -- The Kuwaiti female literary tradition : an overview -- Male domination, female fury in Kuwaiti women's short stories -- Subverting patriarchy : women's defiance and solidarity in Layla al-'Uthman's Wasmiyya takhruj min al-bahar -- Race, class, war, and gender in Tayyiba al-Ibrahim's Mudhakkirat khadim -- Culture and gender : sexuality, femininity, and identity in Fawziyya S. al-Salim's Muzun.