Publication

2014 - Syracuse University Press

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780815633655
  • ISBN-100815633653
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014955102
  • OCLC Control Number878299179
  • Better World Books9780815633655
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPJ7519.W66H36 2014
  • LCCPJ7519.W66 H36 2014

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

BodyFrauKroppDiseaseArabischDiseasesLiteratur

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