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The postcolonial Arabic novel : debating ambivalence /

Main Author: Mūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Series:Studies in Arabic literature, v. 23
Subjects:
Arabic fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism > Arab countries.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Ambivalence in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Arabic fiction.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Postcolonialism.
Arabisch.
Romankunst.
Arab countries.
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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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