Aging in the Modern Arabic Novel (Hardcover)

There are more than 15 million people aged over 65 currently living in the MENA region, yet little attention has been paid to the cultural significance of growing old. This book recognises the widespread silence by countering the critical corpus that reads modern Arabic novels as a political discourse with an emphasis on youth achievement. By assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of theoretical approaches to aging, particularly from the perspective of gender and feminism, to reconcile the biological and cultural understandings of old age. It reveals that there is no standard female or male experience and no single prototype of oldness in the modern Arabic novel, and that men and women manifest a multiplicity of identities, concerns, and experiences as they grow older.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2020
Authors:	Samira Aghacy
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-6675-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adults > Elderly
LSN:	1-4744-6675-3
Barcode:	9781474466752

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