TY  - BOOK
AU  - Al-Musawi,Muhsin
TI  - The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789047401544
AV  - PJ7572.N37 
U1  - 892.7/3609 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Ambivalence in literature
KW  - Arabic fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - History
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Arab countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This is the first study of its kind to tackle the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. In ten chapters, a lengthy preface and an extensive bibliography, the author discusses and questions a large number of novels that demonstrate cultural diversity and richness in the Arab World. Using current methodologies and discourse analysis, the author highlights engagements with postcolonial issues that relate to identity formation, the modern nation-state, individualism, nationalism, gender and class demarcations, and micro-politics. With this intention, the book locates Arabic narrative in the mainstream of world literature, and establishes the modern Arabic novel in the contemporary literary critical world of postcolonial studies. The author's lucid style and thorough knowledge of the field should recommend the book to students and scholars alike, as it comes in time to meet the needs of the academy for solid writing on Islam and the Arabs
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047401544
ER  -