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Blindness & autobiography : Al-Ayyām of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn /

The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the sustained literary analysis here presented by Fedwa Ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Blindness I: Recognition
  • Chapter Two. Blindness II: Conflict
  • Chapter Three. Blindness III: Resolution
  • Chapter Four. Power
  • Chapter Five. Traditional/Modern, East/West
  • Chapter Six. Narration
  • Chapter Seven. Blind Writing, Blind Rhetoric
  • Chapter Eight. Humor
  • Chapter Nine. Narrative Techniques
  • Chapter Ten. Time
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Backmatter.