Ageing In The Modern Arabic Novel

Author : Samira Aghacy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474466788
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel written by Samira Aghacy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 age.

Author : Maria Elena Paniconi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351357239
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bildungsroman and the Arab Novel written by Maria Elena Paniconi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book shows how Bildungsroman impacted the formation of the Egyptian narrative. On a larger scale, the book helps the reader to understand the key role played by the coming of age novel in the definition and perception of modern Arab subjectivity. Exploring the role of Bildungsroman in shaping the canonical Egyptian novel, the book discusses the case of Zaynab by Muhammad Husayn Haykal (1913) as an example of early Arab Bildungsnarrative. It focuses on Latifa Zayyat’s masterpiece The Open Door and the novels of the 90es Generation, offering a gender-based analysis of the Egyptian Bildungsroman. It provides insightful readings about the function of the novel in women’s re-negotiation of social boundaries. The study shows how the stories of youth present universal themes such as the thwarted quest for love, the struggle for personal fulfilment, the desire to achieve a cultural modernity often felt as "other than self". The book is a journey in the Twentieth Century Egyptian Novel, seen through the lens of the transnational form of Bildungsroman. It is a key resource to students and academics interested in Arabic literature, comparative literature and cultural studies.

Author : Sleiman El Hajj
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040113133
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lebano-Pathography written by Sleiman El Hajj and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of autobiographical, autoethnographic illness narratives tackles the intersection between cultural and medical illnesses in present-day Lebanon, in relation to topical issues such as queer home, coming of age, dementia, expatriate trauma, and sexual blackmail, among others. The book’s essays are developed in the backdrop of Lebano-pathography – a dual, potentially adaptable and reusable, narrative intervention (form/method) that does not depoliticise the traumatic subject. Simultaneously, it is a body of writing (text) that seeks to illuminate the different ways one can be ill, and try to recover, in present-day Lebanon. While somatic manifestations of illness and their concomitant patient accounts are central to previous research in narrative medicine and illness writing, Lebano-pathography underscores a more versatile interpretation of illness encompassing cultural practice and/or clinical disease, and exploring in critically informed autobiographical text the two illness categories’ causal interrelationship. In the backdrop of the cadaverous political grid and economic tensions rending the country since the national tragedy of the August 4, 2020 explosion of Beirut Port, this volume unpacks the following thematic clusters: (1) Rewriting Illness: Pathographies of Gender and Sex; (2) The Alzheimer Spectrum: Cognitive and/or Cultural Memory Failure; (3) Walking the City: Medical Malpractice, Pedestrian Injuries, and Claustophobia; (4) The Bones Within: Immigrant Narratives and Vicarious Trauma; and (5) Surviving Trauma: Coping and Mental Health. The chapters in this book were originally published in Life Writing and are accompanied by a new conclusion.

Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748627243
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature written by Paul Starkey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a succinct introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Designed primarily as an introductory textbook for English-speaking undergraduates, it will also be of interest to a more general readership interested in the contemporary Middle East or in comparative and modern literature. The work attempts to situate the development of modern Arabic literature in the context of the medieval Arabic literary tradition as well as the new literary forms derived from the West, exploring the interaction between social, political and cultural change in the Middle East and the development of a modern Arabic literary tradition. Poetry, prose writing and the theatre are discussed in separate chapters. The work overall aims to give a balanced account of the subject, reflecting the different pace of literary development in diverse parts of the Arab world, including North Africa. Key Features*A concise introduction to a field that deserves to be better known in the West.*Clear presentation, based on extensive classroom experience of teaching the subject.*Guidance on other sources of further information.*Extensive bibliography, with list of works in English translation.

Author : Alison M. Downham Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192654527
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing written by Alison M. Downham Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of doctors' professional identities in postrevolutionary biomedicine. Older women were identified as an important patient cohort for the expanding medicalisation of French society and were advised to entrust themselves to the hygienic care of doctors in managing the whole era of life from around and after the final cessation of menses. However, menopause owed much of its conceptual weft to earlier themes of women as the sicker sex, of vitalist crisis, of the vapours, and of astrological climacteric years. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention. It tells a complex story of how women's ageing featured in the demographic revolution in modern science, in the denigration of folk medicine, in the unique French field of hygiène, and in the fixation on women in the emergence of modern psychiatry. It reveals the nineteenth-century French origins of the still-current medical and alternative-health approaches to women's ageing as something to be managed through gynaecological surgery, hormonal replacement, and lifestyle intervention.

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature written by Roger Allen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the entire history of modern Arabic literature from the late-19th century to the end of the 1980s, with examples drawn from countries as diverse as Egypt and Kuwait. Although the main accent is on the prose of Egypt and the countries of the Mashreq, North African literature is also included.

Author : Denys Jahnson Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774249068
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The AUC Press Book of Modern Arabic Literature written by Denys Jahnson Davis and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of modern Arabic short stories and excerpts from novels, including the work of seventy-nine writers from fourteen countries, from the 1930s to the 2000s.

Author : Aḥmad ʻĀyidī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774160042
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Abbas el Abd written by Aḥmad ʻĀyidī and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening and refreshingly original debut novel from an emerging Egyptian writer

Author : تامر، زكريا
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162558
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hedgehog written by تامر، زكريا and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My mother went to visit our neighbor, Umm Bahaa, but refused to take me with her, on the pretext that women visit women and men visit men. So she left me alone, promising not to be gone more than a few minutes. I told my cat I was going to strangle her, but she paid no attention and continued grooming herself with her tongue." Thus we meet the five-year-old narrator of The Hedgehog, who introduces us to his world: his house (with the djinn girl who lives in his bedroom), his garden (where he wishes to be a tree), and his best friend the black stone wall. This tightly told novella confirms that Zakaria Tamer remains at the height of his powers. The short stories that follow were first published in the collection Tigers on the Tenth Day. Economical and controlled, they deal with man's inhumanity to man (and to woman) and showcase the author's typical sharply satirical style.

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781306504096
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Hour written by Najīb Maḥfūẓ and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamid Burhan, a retired government employee, and his loyal wife Saniya have built themselves a home in the quiet southern suburb of Helwan, where they raise their son and two daughters, expecting life to remain as blessed as it was in the photograph of the happy family at a picnic in a Nileside park in the early 1930s. Events in the wider world impingewars, revolution, peace with Israelwhile Saniya and the old house in Helwan remain the bedrock of the familys values. But everyone else is buffeted in one way or another by the tumultuous processes of change in Egyptian politics and society. In this compact novel written in 1982, Naguib Mahfouz again uses a family saga, as he did in his Cairo Trilogy, to reflect on the processes of enormous social transformation that Egypt underwent in the space of a few generations in the twentieth century.