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BL
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1090238
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bc101072
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English
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| Main Entry
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El Sadda, Hoda
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| Title & Author
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Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel : : Egypt, 1892-2008 /\ Hoda Elsadda.
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| Publication Statement
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press :: Co-published by Syracuse University Press,, [2012]
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, ©2012
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| Series Statement
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Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xlii, 261 pages)
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| ISBN
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9780748669189
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: 0748669183
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: 9780748669202
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: 0748669205
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: 9780748669196
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: 0748669191
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9780748639267
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0748639268
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: gender, nation, and the canon of the Arabic novel -- Beginnings: discourses on ideal manhood and ideal womanhood -- The new man: conflicting masculinities in the fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini, and al-Rafi'i -- Tawfiq al-Hakim and the civilizational novel -- Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy: a national allegory -- Latifa al-Zayyat: gender and nationalist politics -- Defeated masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim -- The personal is political: debating the new writing in the 1990s -- The postcolonial nomadic novel -- Liminal spaces/liminal identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy, and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din -- Postscript: after Tahrir: imagining otherwise.
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| Abstract
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A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egyptian novel Gender 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 period The process of inclusion and exclusion in canon formation The geopolitics of definitions of national or cultural identity in the global world The conceptual discourses on gender and nation The meaning of national identity in a global context
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Arabic fiction-- Egypt-- History and criticism.
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Arabic fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Arabic fiction-- 21st century-- History and criticism.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Nationalism in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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RELIGION-- Islam-- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- African.
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Arabic fiction.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Nationalism in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Egypt.
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| Dewey Classification
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892.7360935
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| LC Classification
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PJ8212.E53 2012eb
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