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The Female Suffering Body : Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature /

Examines the absence of representations of female illness in Arab literature, exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female sickness and disability have transformed in the modern period and finds that over the course of 60 years women with physical ailments have moved from the marg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hamdar, Abir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Examines the absence of representations of female illness in Arab literature, exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female sickness and disability have transformed in the modern period and finds that over the course of 60 years women with physical ailments have moved from the margins to the center of Arabic literature.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780815652908