Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Hoda Elsadda is Professor of the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Manchester. She is co-author of 'A Beginner's Guide to Women's Issues' (The Women and Memory FOrum, Cairo, 2002) and of 'Significant Moments in Egyptian Women's History' (The National Council fro Women, Cairo, 2001).

Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and translation; Introduction: Gender, nation and the canon of the Arabic novel; Part One: Chapter 1: Beginnings: Discourses on Ideal Manhood and Ideal Womanhood; Chapter 2: The New Man: Conflicting Masculinities in the Fiction of Haikal, al-Mazini and a-Rafi'I; Chapter 3: Tawfiq al-Hakim and the Civilizational Novel; Part Two: Chapter 4: Naguib Mahfouz's Trilogy: A National Allegory; Chapter 5: Latifa al-Zayyat: Gender and Nationalist Politics; Chapter 6: Defeated Masculinities in Sonallah Ibrahim; Part Three: Chapter 7: The Personal is Political: Debating the New Writing in the 1990s; Chapter 8: The Postcolonial Nomadic Novel; Chapter 9: Liminal Spaces/ Liminal Identities: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Ahmed Alaidy and Muhammad 'Ala' al-Din; Conclusion; Arabic References; English References; Index.