| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Series |
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Modernization and its Discontents; Chapter Two North Africa and the Anti-Colonial Critics: Fanon, Memmi, Sartre, Camus; Chapter Three Camus, Djebar, and the "Non-Color" of Nonviolence; Chapter Four Paris on the Nile, Egypt on the Plantation: Development after Muhammad Ali; Chapter Five Letters of a Lost Generation: Alhadeff, Aciman, Said, Durrell, Mahfouz; Chapter Six The Radical Surgery of a Woman Doctor: Nawal El Saadawi; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
A critique of modern development may be traced in the postcolonial and anti-colonial literature about North Africa. Works by Fanon, Camus, Djebar, Mahfouz, El Saadawi, Said, and others, offer a window upon contemporary modernization and related issues of identity, independence, and social justice |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic literature.
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Literature.
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Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Arabic literature -- Africa, North -- History and criticism
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Literature and globalization -- Africa, North
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North African literature (French) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature
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North African literature (French)
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Literature and globalization
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Arabic literature
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Literature
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North Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203928080 |
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0203928083 |
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1281229369 |
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9781281229366 |
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