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The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Abir Hamdar
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Description for The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Hardcover. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSK; JFFG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Although there is a history of rich, complex, and variegated representations of female illness in Western literature over the last two centuries, the sick female body has traditionally remained outside the Arab literary imagination. Hamdar takes on this historical absence in The Female Suffering Body by exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female physical illness and disability in the Arab world have transformed in the modern period. In doing so, she examines a range of both canonical and hitherto marginalized Arab writers, including Mahmoud Taymur, Yusuf al-Sibai, Ghassan Kanafani, Naguib Mahfouz, Ziyad Qassim, Colette Khoury, Hanan al-Shaykh, Alia ... Read more
Although there is a history of rich, complex, and variegated representations of female illness in Western literature over the last two centuries, the sick female body has traditionally remained outside the Arab literary imagination. Hamdar takes on this historical absence in The Female Suffering Body by exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female physical illness and disability in the Arab world have transformed in the modern period. In doing so, she examines a range of both canonical and hitherto marginalized Arab writers, including Mahmoud Taymur, Yusuf al-Sibai, Ghassan Kanafani, Naguib Mahfouz, Ziyad Qassim, Colette Khoury, Hanan al-Shaykh, Alia ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815633655
SKU
V9780815633655
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About Abir Hamdar
Abir Hamdar is a lecturer at Durham University in Durham, England. She has published several articles in such journals as Feminist Theory, Journal of Cultural Research, and Al-Raida.
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