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Male domination, female revolt [[electronic resource] ] : race, class, and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction / / by Ishaq Tijani



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Autore: Tijani Ishaq Visualizza persona
Titolo: Male domination, female revolt [[electronic resource] ] : race, class, and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction / / by Ishaq Tijani Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Briil, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
Disciplina: 892.7/36099287095367
Soggetto topico: Arabic fiction - Kuwait - History and criticism
Arabic fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Arabic fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Women in literature
Race in literature
Social classes in literature
Sex role in literature
Patriarchy in literature
Note generali: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2005.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Modern Arabic fiction in Kuwait : emergence and development -- The Kuwaiti female literary tradition : an overview -- Male domination, female fury in Kuwaiti women's short stories -- Subverting patriarchy : women's defiance and solidarity in Laylā al-'Uthmān's Wasmiyya takhruj min al-bahạr -- Race, class, war, and gender in Ṭayyiba al-Ibrāhīm's Mudhakkirāt khādim -- Culture and gender : sexuality, femininity, and identity in Fawziyya S. al-Sālim's Muzūn.
Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates various forms of women’s resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women’s fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women—born before or in the first half of the twentieth century—as resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change.
Titolo autorizzato: Male domination, female revolt  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-60247-0
9786612602474
90-474-4267-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792371503321
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Serie: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; ; v. 8.