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The Female Suffering Body - 9780815633655

Un libro in lingua di Abir Hamdar edito da Syracuse Univ Pr, 2014

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Based on the author's PhD thesis, this book examines representations of female illness and disability in modern Arabic literature since 1950. It considers short stories and novels by male and female writers of the Levant and Egypt and the ways sick and disabled characters have been depicted, their roles, and the symbolic meaning of their presence or absence in these narratives, in the context of the social, religious, and political discourses of female physical sickness in the Arab world. It combines literary criticism and sociology and anthropology of health and illness to illustrate the history of the sick female body, how it had been repressed in Arabic literature, and how it is more visible in recent works, focusing on works by Mahmoud Taymur, Yusuf al-Sibai, Ghassan Kanafani, Naguib Mahfouz, Ziyad Qassim, Colette Khoury, Hanan al-Shaykh, Alia Mamdouh, Salwa Bakr, Hassan Daoud, and Betool Khedair. Some sections of the book have been previously published elsewhere. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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