| The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence Contributor(s): Al-Musawi, Muhsin (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004125868 ISBN-13: 9789004125865 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $206.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2003 Annotation: This is the first study of its kind to tackle the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. In ten chapters, a lengthy preface and an extensive bibliography, the author discusses and questions a large number of novels that demonstrate cultural diversity and richness in the Arab World. Using current methodologies and discourse analysis, the author highlights engagements with postcolonial issues that relate to identity formation, the modern nation-state, individualism, nationalism, gender and class demarcations, and micro-politics. With this intention, the book locates Arabic narrative in the mainstream of world literature, and establishes the modern Arabic novel in the contemporary literary critical world of postcolonial studies. The author's lucid style and thorough knowledge of the field should recommend the book to students and scholars alike, as it comes in time to meet the needs of the academy for solid writing on Islam and the Arabs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 892.736 |
| LCCN: 2002043734 |
| Series: Studies in Arabic Literature |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 6.52" W x 9.5" (2.00 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |