Gebundenes Buch

Harem Histories

Envisioning Places and Living Spaces

Herausgeber: Booth, Marilyn

Beschreibung

Collection explores the idea and actualities of "harem" and gendered space through historically shifting social and architectural constructs and as a literary and artistic trope, in Islamic societies and in Euro/American imaginations.

Autor

Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt, and books and essays on Arabic vernacular poetry, modern Arabic fiction, constructions of masculinity in early Arabic gender discourse, and the theory and practice of literary translation. She is an award-winning translator of contemporary Arabic fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348580
• ISBN-10: 0822348586
• Artikelnr.: 30364677