Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature

Roger Allen

ISBN 10: 0863560628 / ISBN 13: 9780863560620

Editore: Saqi Books, 2001

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Riassunto: In segregated, conservative societies with a repressive attitude to women, writings on the theme of love and sexuality are of particular interest. Among the many studies on modern Arabic literature, this book is the first major treatment of what has generally been a taboo subject.

The scope covers the entire history of modern Arabic literature--poetry, the novel and the short story--from the late nineteenth century to the end of the 1980s. Examples are drawn from countries as diverse as Algeria and Kuwait. Although the main accent is on the prose of Egypt and the countries of the Mashreq, North African literature is also included.

Topics range from 'erotic awareness in the early Egyptian short story' to 'death and desire in Iraqi war literature', from 'fathers and husbands as tyrants and victims' to 'the foreign woman in the North African novel'.

The writers whose works are analysed include Tawfiq al-Hakim, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Adonis, Layla Ba'albakki, Najib Mahfouz, Edwar al-Kharrat, Layla al-'Uthman and Nizar Qabbani.

Each of the nineteen contributors to the book is a specialist in his or her field of modern Arabic literature.

L'autore: Roger Allen is professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hilary Kilpatrick has taught Arabic literature at the Universities of Nijmegen and Bern. She has published on both classical and modern Arabic prose literature.

Ed de Moor is reader in Arabic literature at the University of Nijmegen and editor of Orientations, the annual publication of the Dutch Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He has written widely on Arabic literature, particularly on modern poetry.

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Titolo: Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic ...
Casa editrice: Saqi Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione libro: New