The postcolonial Arabic novel : debating ambivalence /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2003.
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Colección: | Studies in Arabic literature ;
v. 23. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prefatory threshholds: Scheherazade avenged
- Postcolonial matters in Arabic narrative
- Writing Scheherazade now: the growth of modern Arabic fiction
- Debating ambivalence: socio-political engagements
- Arabs and the West: counternarratives and narrative encounters
- Women in Arabic
- A voice for dissent: rogues, rebels and saints
- Site as narrative
- Time in narrative
- Cultural contestation and self-definition in Arabic metafiction
- Scheherazade's gifts: Maḥfūz's narrative strategies in Layālī alf laylah.