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:	9780415597432
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/29/2010
Series:	Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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