The postcolonial Arabic novel : : debating ambivalence / / Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi.
This work covers the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. It discusses and questions a large number of novels show cultural diversity in the Arab world. It highlights engagements with postcolonial issues that relate to identity formation, the modern nation-state, individualism, and nationalism.
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| Superior document: | Studies in Arabic literature, v. 23 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Arabic literature ;
v. 23. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 430 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; Abbreviations and Editorial Notes; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Prefatory Thresholds: Scheherazade Avenged; Chapter One. Postcolonial Matters in Arabic Narrative; Chapter Two. Writing Scheherazade Now: The Growth of Modern Arabic Fiction; Chapter Three. Debating Ambivalence: Socio-Political Engagements; Chapter Four. Arabs and the West: Counternarratives and Narrative Encounters; Chapter Five. Women in Arabic; Chapter Six. A Voice for Dissent: Rogues, Rebels and Saints; Chapter Seven. Site as Narrative; Chapter Eight. Time in Narrative; Chapter Nine. Cultural Contestation and Self-Definition in Arabic Metafiction; Chapter Ten. Scheherazade's Gifts: Mahfū's Narrative Stategies in Layālī Alf Laylah; In Lieu of Conclusion; Bibliography; Index