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UNINA9910783490403321 |
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Autore |
Mūsawī Muḥsin Jāsim |
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Titolo |
The postcolonial Arabic novel : debating ambivalence / / Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi |
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Leiden : ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-46678-2 |
9786610466788 |
1-4237-1175-0 |
90-474-0154-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 430 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Arabic literature, , 0169-9903 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Arabic fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
Postcolonialism - Arab countries |
Discourse analysis, Narrative |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Ambivalence in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-411) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 Metafiction; Chapter Ten. Scheherazade's Gifts: Mahfū's Narrative Stategies in Layālī Alf Laylah; In Lieu of Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work covers the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. It discusses and questions a large number of novels show cultural diversity in the Arab |
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