Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East Since 1967 Contributor(s): Aghacy, Samira (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815632371 ISBN-13: 9780815632375 Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: December 2009 Click for more in this series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
Dewey: 892.730 |
LCCN: 2009039767 |
Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" L (1.05 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 01/15/2010 pg. 20 Choice 06/01/2010 Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 255 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of the Arab East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq) in the context of a specific set of anxieties about gender roles and sexuality in Arab societies. While gender studies in the area have focused primarily on the situation of women, the treatment of Arab men as gendered subjects has fallen behind. Samira Aghacy's rich analysis presents gender relations not within a fixed biological mold but rather as a complex phenomenon fraught with ambivalence and operating within particular historical and geopolitical settings. Through a series of close readings of twenty contemporary Arabic novels, Aghacy presents a mosaic of masculinities that challenges the generally held view of an essentialized archetypal Arab man and that mirrors a contested vision of manliness where men figure in diverse sociocultural environments. This groundbreaking work reveals the volatile nature of masculinity and its inextricability from femininity. |
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