Feminism and avant-garde aesthetics in the Levantine novel / Kifah Hanna.
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Hanna, Kifah, 1977- (författare)
- ISBN 9781137548702
- Publicerad: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
- Engelska 198 s.
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Serie: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
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- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Gender, Nation, and War: A New Critical Conjunction1. The Vicious Cycle: Contemporary Literary Feminisms in the Mashriq2. The Gendered Subject: Literary Existentialism in Ghadah al-Samman's "Beirut Tetralogy"3. Sahar Khalifeh's Resistance Literature: Towards a Palestinian Critical Realism4. Gender Dialectics: Huda Barakat's Aesthetics of AndrogynyAfterword: Women Writing War, A Levantine Outlook.
- "Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel examines the aesthetics of existentialism, critical realism, and surrealism in contemporary feminist literature in the Levant. It focuses on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghadah al-Samman (b. 1942), the Palestinian Sahar Khalifeh (b. 1941), and the Lebanese Huda Barakat (b. 1952) and argues that their mediations of the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1990 and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (especially since 1967) led to the development of a feminism specific to the Levant through avant-garde literary aesthetics. Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samman, Khalifeh, and Barakat introduce into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book aims to revive a critical emphasis on aesthetics in Arab women's writing. Moreover, by setting literary representations of gender and sexuality in both national and regional contexts, it highlights 'the Levant' as an interstitial space that inspired new forms of Arab feminism"--
- "This book examines the literary aesthetics of existentialism, critical realism, and surrealism in contemporary feminist literature in the Levant. Focusing on the novels of Ghadah al-Samman, Sahar Khalifeh, and Huda Barakat, it critically dissects their representations of gender and sexuality during times of war and national crisis in the region"--
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- Surrealism (sao)
- Existentialism i litteraturen (sao)
- Feminism och litteratur (sao)
- Arabisk litteratur -- historia (sao)
- Feminism in literature. (LCSH)
- Existentialism in literature. (LCSH)
- Surrealism in literature. (LCSH)
- Arabic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Women authors, Arab -- Arab countries -- History. (LCSH)
- Feminist fiction, Arabic -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Middle Eastern fiction -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Middle East. (LCSH)
- Feminism (kao)
- Krig (kao)
- Nationalism (kao)
- Feminism (kao//eng)
- War (kao//eng)
- Nationalism (kao//eng)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. (bisacsh)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. (bisacsh)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. (bisacsh)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. (bisacsh)
- Litteraturvetenskap -- Mellanöstern -- Egypten -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet -- 2000-talet (kao)
- Författare -- pionjärer (kao)
- Literary studies -- Middle East -- Egypt -- 19th century -- 20th century -- 21st century (kao//eng)
- Authors -- pioneers (kao//eng)
- Existentialism in literature (LCSH)
- Surrealism (LCSH)
- Feminism and literature (LCSH)
Personnamn
- Sammān, Ghādah -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Khalīfah, Saḥar -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Barakāt, Hudá -- Criticism and interpretation.
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