Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction

by Muhammad Siddiq

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135980504
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/11/2007
Series:	Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	531 KB

About the Author

Muhammad Siddiq is Associate Professor at the Department for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Table of Contents

1. A Genre at War: Literary Form and Historical Agency  2. Tangents of Identity: The Poetics of Space in the Egyptian Novel  3. Divining Identities: Religion and the Egyptian Novel  4. Questionable Subjects: Individuality, Representation, and the Novel