Samira Aghacy

Broschiertes Buch

Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel

Beschreibung

By assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of theoretical approaches to aging, particularly from the perspective of gender and feminism, to reconcile the biological and cultural understandings of old age.

Autor

Samira Aghacy is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and interim Director of the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University. She is author of Masculine Identity in the Fiction of Arab East since 1967 (2009), and has published numerous articles on contemporary Arabic fiction. She also served for seven years (1997-2003) as editor of Al-Raida, a feminist peer-reviewed journal published by IWSAW.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781474466769
• ISBN-10: 1474466761
• Artikelnr.: 63658142