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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel Egypt, 1892-2008 (Hardcover)
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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel Egypt, 1892-2008 (Hardcover)
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From the end of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first,
Arabic novels and Egyptian fiction have experienced a rebirth as
the literary landscape has become more diverse and inclusive.
Writing has moved beyond the established themes in the national
canon to engage with neocolonial discourses in the globalised
world. In Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel, Elsadda revisits
the modern Arab literary tradition from a gender lens, questioning
the process of inclusion and exclusion. In doing so, she recovers
literary voices that have been marginalised because they did not
fit into the ideological blueprint of the cultural elite. Exploring
the literary narratives of prominent authors such as Naguib
Mahfouz, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Mohammed Hussein Haikal, Elsadda
interrogates the representations of femininity and masculinity in
modern Arabic fiction. With a New Woman figure in Arabic
literature, she distinguishes between those who support or critique
modernist nation building; she also looks at the construction of
the New Man and the texts that feature men who represent desirable
and undesirable characteristics for the modern nation. By creating
a dialogue with a broad range of novels, literary criticism, and
social commentaries of men and women, Elsadda's analysis of
literary masculinities goes beyond the limitations of Arabic novels
and can be applied to all third world literary works that have been
described as national allegories.
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