Male domination, female revolt : : race, class, and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction / / by Ishaq Tijani.
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...
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| Superior document: | Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, v. 8 |
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| 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. |
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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.