Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel

Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781474466776
ISBN-13 : 147446677X
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Book Synopsis Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel by : Aghacy Samira Aghacy

Download or read book Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel written by Aghacy Samira Aghacy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than 15 million people aged over 65 currently living in the MENA region, yet little attention has been paid to the cultural significance of growing old. This book recognises the widespread silence by countering the critical corpus that reads modern Arabic novels as a political discourse with an emphasis on youth achievement. By assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of theoretical approaches to aging, particularly from the perspective of gender and feminism, to reconcile the biological and cultural understandings of old age. It reveals that there is no standard female or male experience and no single prototype of oldness in the modern Arabic novel, and that men and women manifest a multiplicity of identities, concerns, and experiences as they grow older.


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