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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamdar, Abir
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women with disabilities in literature.
Sick in literature.
Arabic literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
Malades dans la litterature.
Handicapees dans la litterature.
Litterature arabe > 20e siecle.
Arabic literature > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780815652908

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