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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809909703321

Autore

Ben Zahra Saloua Ali

Titolo

Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / / Saloua Aali Ben Zahra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-6958-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 pages)

Disciplina

809/.933527

Soggetti

People with disabilities in motion pictures

Literature, Modern - Muslim authors - History and criticism

People with disabilities in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Al Qur'an's teachings with respect to the disabled -- The Tunisian deaf mute through the lens of American Orientalism -- Tunisian camera's treatment of disability -- The disabled native: ressource humaine for the French: a literary study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza -- The case of female characters with disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "cure or kill": a disability study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable [Sand child] -- Disability and shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: what it means to be a Pakistani disabled postcolonial woman -- The Egyptian visually-challenged Sheikh Husni's treatment of blindness in the Egyptian film Al Kitkat -- Iraqi in Paris: speaking volumes: the bond in deafness of an Iraqi father and son -- Conclusion.