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The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature - Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Abir Hamdar
The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature - Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Abir Hamdar
Examines the absence of representations of female illness in Arab literature, exploring how both literary and cultural perspectives on female sickness and disability have transformed in the modern period and finds that over the course of 60 years women with physical ailments have moved from the margins to the center of Arabic literature.
184 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 17, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780815633655 |
| Publishers | Syracuse University Press |
| Pages | 184 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 238 × 16 mm · 376 g |
| Language | English |
| Contributor | Ellen J. Amster |
| Contributor | Michelle Hartman |