Arab Culture and the Novel - Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Muhammad Siddiq is Associate Professor at the Department for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Klappentext This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes - religious, social, political, and psychological - of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries. Zusammenfassung This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A Genre at War: Literary Form and Historical Agency 2. Tangents of Identity: The Poetics of Space in the Egyptian Novel 3. Divining Identities: Religion and the Egyptian Novel 4. Questionable Subjects: Individuality, Representation, and the Novel

Product details

• Authors: Muhammad Siddiq, Siddiq Muhammad
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2007
• EAN: 9780415772600
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77260-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt