The postcolonial Arabic novel : debating ambivalence

The postcolonial Arabic novel : debating ambivalence /

This work covers the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. It discusses and questions a large number of novels show cultural diversity in the Arab world. It highlights engagements with postcolonial issues that relate to identity formation, the modern nation-state, individualism, and nationalism.

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Main Author: Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003
Series:Studies in Arabic literature ; v. 23.
Subjects:
Arabic fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism > Arab countries.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Ambivalence in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Prefatory threshholds: Scheherazade avenged
  • Postcolonial matters in Arabic narrative
  • Writing Scheherazade now: the growth of modern Arabic fiction
  • Debating ambivalence: socio-political engagements
  • Arabs and the West: counternarratives and narrative encounters
  • Women in Arabic
  • A voice for dissent: rogues, rebels and saints
  • Site as narrative
  • Time in narrative
  • Cultural contestation and self-definition in Arabic metafiction
  • Scheherazade's gifts: Maḥfūz's narrative strategies in Layālī alf laylah.

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