The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature
(Part of the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Series)
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Although there is a history of rich, complex, and variegated representations of female illness in Western literature over the last two centuries, the sick female body has traditionally remained outside the Arab literary imagination. Hamdar takes on this historical absence in The Female Suffering Body by exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female physical illness and disability in the Arab world have transformed in the modern period...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0815633653
ISBN13:9780815633655
Release Date:December 2014
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:178 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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