Ageing in the modern Arabic novel /
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 a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Ageing in traditional neighbourhoods : conformity and transgression
- Hoary monuments, residual bodies : senescence in the city
- Menopausal tremors : refurbishing the body
- Senile masculinity : the male body in crisis
- Yarns of later life : transgressive strategies
- Conclusion.