Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel

Author:   K. Hanna
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9781349714896


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   25 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm?n, Khal?feh, Barak?t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book aims to revive a critical emphasis on aesthetics in Arab women's writing.

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Author:   K. Hanna
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   2.776kg
ISBN:  

9781349714896


ISBN 10:   1349714895
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   25 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Gender, Nation, and War: A New Critical Conjunction 1. The Vicious Cycle: Contemporary Literary Feminisms in the Mashriq 2. The Gendered Subject: Literary Existentialism in Gh?dah al-Samm?n's ""Beirut Tetralogy"" 3. Sahar Khal?feh's Resistance Literature: Towards a Palestinian Critical Realism 4. Gender Dialectics: Hud? Barak?t's Aesthetics of Androgyny Afterword: Women Writing War, A Levantine Outlook"

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The Aesthetics of Levantine War Literature is a bold and timely intervention in the field of Arab feminist studies, and constitutes an important addition to scholarship on Levantine writers due to its focus on questions of aesthetics, attention to masculinity and sexualities, and openness to a wide range of intercultural critical frameworks, including psychoanalysis and the 'avant-garde.' - Anna Ball, Senior Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University, UK Hanna makes important advances in the field of Middle Eastern literary studies by identifying the emergence of a new literary feminism centered on aesthetics rather than simple thematic or chronological typologies. This timely work helps to deepen our cultural understanding of an important but troubled region by raising new literary critical perspectives related to gender, politics and war. - Elisabeth Kendall, Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK, and author of Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt


Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel is a bold and timely intervention in the field of Arab feminist studies, and constitutes an important addition to scholarship on Levantine writers due to its focus on questions of aesthetics, attention to masculinity and sexualities, and openness to a wide range of intercultural critical frameworks, including psychoanalysis and the 'avant-garde.' - Anna Ball, Senior Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University, UK Hanna makes important advances in the field of Middle Eastern literary studies by identifying the emergence of a new literary feminism centered on aesthetics rather than simple thematic or chronological typologies. This timely work helps to deepen our cultural understanding of an important but troubled region by raising new literary critical perspectives related to gender, politics and war. - Elisabeth Kendall, Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK, and author of Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt


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Kifah Hanna is Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, USA.

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