Female Suffering Body - Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature

Informationen zum Autor Abir Hamdar is a lecturer at Durham University in Durham! England. She has published several articles in such journals as Feminist Theory! Journal of Cultural Research! and Al-Raida. Klappentext Although there is a history of rich, complex, and variegated representations of female illness in Western literature over the last two centuries, the sick female body has traditionally remained outside the Arab literary imagination. Hamdar takes on this historical absence in The Female Suffering Body by exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female physical illness and disability in the Arab world have transformed in the modern period. Zusammenfassung 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.

About the author

Abir Hamdar is a lecturer at Durham University in Durham, England. She has published several articles in such journals as Feminist Theory, Journal of Cultural Research, and Al-Raida.

Product details

• Authors: Abir Hamdar
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2014
• EAN: 9780815633655
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3365-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories