03270nam 22006974a 450 991081051750332120200520144314.01-280-46678-297866104667881-4237-1175-090-474-0154-9(CKB)1000000000032988(EBL)253698(OCoLC)171583118(SSID)ssj0000224830(PQKBManifestationID)11202529(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224830(PQKBWorkID)10210623(PQKB)11473813(MiAaPQ)EBC253698(Au-PeEL)EBL253698(CaPaEBR)ebr10090539(CaONFJC)MIL46678(EXLCZ)99100000000003298820021203d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe postcolonial Arabic novel debating ambivalence /Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi1st ed.Leiden Boston Brill20031 online resource (xiv, 430 pages)Studies in Arabic literature,0169-9903 ;v. 2390-04-12586-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-411) and index.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; IndexThis 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.Studies in Arabic literature ;v. 23.Arabic fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismNarration (Rhetoric)History20th centuryPostcolonialismArab countriesDiscourse analysis, NarrativePostcolonialism in literatureAmbivalence in literatureArabic fictionHistory and criticism.Narration (Rhetoric)HistoryPostcolonialismDiscourse analysis, Narrative.Postcolonialism in literature.Ambivalence in literature.892.7/3609Musawi Muhsin Jasim1496998MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810517503321The postcolonial Arabic novel4031997UNINA