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Arab Culture, Identity and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

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This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries.

Author(s): Muhammad Siddiq
Edition: 1
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 272

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
DEDICATION......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 20
NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION......Page 22
1 A GENRE AT WAR: Literary form and historical agency......Page 24
2 TANGENTS OF IDENTITY: The poetics of space in the Egyptian novel......Page 57
3 DIVINING IDENTITIES: Religion and the Egyptian novel......Page 124
4 QUESTIONABLE SUBJECTS: Individuality, representation, and the Egyptian novel......Page 177
NOTES......Page 226
INDEX......Page 252