Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

by Muhammad Siddiq (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $150.27

  Explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. This book 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.