1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001359550403321

Autore

Bacciarelli, Vincenzo

Titolo

Immagine del mondo fisico : per le scuole medie superiori / Vincenzo Bacciarelli, P.A. Giustini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Trevisini, 1988

Disciplina

530

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450532703321

Autore

Mūsawī Muḥsin Jāsim

Titolo

The postcolonial Arabic novel [[electronic resource] ] : debating ambivalence / / Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; Boston, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46678-2

9786610466788

1-4237-1175-0

90-474-0154-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Collana

Studies in Arabic literature, , 0169-9903 ; ; v. 23

Disciplina

892.7/3609

Soggetti

Arabic fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century

Postcolonialism - Arab countries

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Postcolonialism in literature

Ambivalence in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-411) and index.



Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Abbreviations and Editorial Notes; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Prefatory Thresholds: Scheherazade Avenged; Chapter One. Postcolonial Matters in Arabic Narrative; Chapter Two. Writing Scheherazade Now: The Growth of Modern Arabic Fiction; Chapter Three. Debating Ambivalence: Socio-Political Engagements; Chapter Four. Arabs and the West: Counternarratives and Narrative Encounters; Chapter Five. Women in Arabic; Chapter Six. A Voice for Dissent: Rogues, Rebels and Saints; Chapter Seven. Site as Narrative; Chapter Eight. Time in Narrative

Chapter Nine. Cultural Contestation and Self-Definition in Arabic MetafictionChapter Ten. Scheherazade's Gifts: Mahfū's Narrative Stategies in Layālī Alf Laylah; In Lieu of Conclusion; Bibliograpphy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.