Critical Perspectives on Naguib Mahfouz
Author: Trevor Le Gassick
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780894106590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Trevor Le Gassick
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780894106590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Muḥammad Muḥammad ʻInānī
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pamela Allegretto-Diiulio
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Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781624990717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Generally regarded as modern Egypt's leading literary figure, Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arabic-language author awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Critics hail Mahfouz for his ability to capture the essence of Cairene culture and life. This book illuminates how Naguib Mahfouz has successfully used the elements of daily life to capture the reality of his generation amidst the political upheaval caused in part by the British occupation of Egypt. This study also goes beyond opening up the Egyptian world to the reader; it is a careful analysis of the major novels of Mahfouz's career from an ambiguous feminist perspective. The author selects the term ambiguous deliberately to signify the disparity between a Western and Islamic lens. By employing this approach, the author successfully shows how the characters are not only entrapped in cages of subservience, but also cleverly reveals how the reader of Mahfouz's work is often entrapped in cages of misunderstanding. As the first scholarly study on Mahfouz's work through a highly original interdisciplinary Western and Eastern feminist lens, this book is a critical addition for collections in Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, and Women's Studies.
Author: Craig W. McLuckie
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780894107696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poet, activist, teacher, and scholar, Dennis Brutus is an influential figure in African literature. Exploring his life and writings, this volume looks at Brutus's childhood, university days, his arrest and imprisonment, and his eventual return to South Africa in 1991.
Author: Lahoucine Ouzgane
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1848137141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afghanistan to the cafés of Morocco, from the experience of couples at infertility clinics in Egypt to that of Iraqi conscripts, it shows how the masculine gender is constructed and negotiated in the Islamic Ummah. It goes far beyond the traditional notion that Islamic masculinities are inseparable from the control of women, and shows how the relationship between spirituality and masculinity is experienced quite differently from the prevailing Western norms. Drawing on sources ranging from modern Arabic literature to discussions of Muhammad‘s virility and Abraham‘s paternity, it portrays ways of being in the world that intertwine with non-Western conceptions of duty to the family, the state and the divine.
Author: Simon Gikandi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 1134582234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers.
Author: Anders Hallengren
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9812567119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, tenNobel Laureates from five continents give various and startlingperspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unityand diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexualroles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book onself-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge andcultural individuality. Published in print for the first time, thesestudies and penetrating observations on topical issues, written byleading authors and intellectuals from many distant countries, make upone of the most intriguing and engaging avowals of our time.
Author: Anders Hallengren
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2005-01-24
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9814338125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book on self-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge and cultural individuality. Published in print for the first time, these studies and penetrating observations on topical issues, written by leading authors and intellectuals from many distant countries, make up one of the most intriguing and engaging avowals of our time.The Nobel Laureates are:Sir V S Naipaul (United Kingdom, born in Trinidad)Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)Derek Walcott (St Lucia)Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)Patrick White (Australia)Ernest Hemingway (USA)Grazia Deledda (Sardinia, Italy)Amartya Sen (United Kingdom and the USA, born in India)Rabindranath Tagore (India)Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
Author: Maha Habib
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-03-16
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0857728016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What have the concepts of modernity and secularization meant for Islamic tradition, culture and society? How have the discourses which surround all of these issues influenced Muslim self-perception and individual identity? There have been many attempts to describe and analyse the encounter between Islam and modernity in the Middle East, but few have been able so effectively to explore the impact this has on the idea and reality of religious identity and individual religiosity. Maha F. Habib examines modernity from this angle, offering socio-cultural, philosophical and literary perspectives. She assesses how this is played out in Egypt, analysing cultural changes in the country through its intellectual thought and literature, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Her references to the works of Muhammad Abdu, Muhammad Husayn Haykal, 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad, Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa al-Aswany and Salwa Bakr reveal contemporary issues and concerns which will interest those researching the cultural and social milieu of modern Egypt.
Author: Dina Heshmat
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1474458386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book offering an extensive analysis of literary and cinematic narratives dealing with the 1919 anti-colonial revolution in Egypt.