K. Hanna

Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel

Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-71489-6
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781349714896
• ISBN-10: 1349714895
• Artikelnr.: 45074989

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"The most important achievements of this book is its successful balance between the encyclopedic scope required to prove the existence and the importance of a literary movement and the close readings necessary to demonstrate the movement's avant-gardism. ... Hanna's Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel represents a valuable intervention in Arab feminist studies, Arab modernist studies, and trauma studies." (Rania Said, H-Levant, networks.h-net.org, August, 2017)