Love and sexuality in modern Arabic literature/
edited by Roger Allen, Hilary Kilpatrick and Ed de Moor
- London: Saqi Books, 1995.
- 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-256) and index.
On love and sexuality in modern Arabic literature / Love and the birth of modern Arabic literature / The figure of the lover in popular Arabic drama of the early twentieth century / The Romantic imagination and the female ideal / Love and beyond in Mahjar literature / The four ages of Ḥusayn Tawfīq : love and sexuality in the novels of Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm / Erotic awareness in the early Egyptian short story / Love and the mechanisms of power : Kamāl ʻAbd al-Jawwād and Saʻīd al-Juhaynī / Fathers and husbands : tyrants and victims in some autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works from the Arab World / The foreign woman in the Francophone North African novel / The function of sexual passages in some Egyptian novels of the 1980s / Distant echoes of love in the narrative work of Fuʾād al-Tikirlī / Sexuality in Jabra's novel, The Search for Walid Masud / Women's narrative in modern Arabic literature : a typology / The development of women's political consciousness in the short stories of the Kuwaiti author Laylā al-ʻUthmān / Death and desire in Iraqi war literature / Nizar Qabbanis autobiography : images of sexuality, death and poetry / Love and the body in modern Arabic poetry / Hilary Kilpatrick -- Boutros Hallaq -- Rosella Dorigo Ceccato -- Robin Ostle -- Cornelis Nijland -- Paul Starkey -- Ed de Moor The Arabic short story and the status of women / Roger Allen -- Richard van Leeuwen -- Hartmut Fähndrich -- Susanne Enderwitz -- Stephan Guth -- Wiebke Walther -- Mattityahu Peled -- Sabry Hafez -- Angelika Rahmer -- Miriam Cooke -- Stefan Wild -- Asʻad E. Khairallah. Introduction:
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Arabic literature--History and criticism. Love in literature. Sex in literature. Eroticism in literature.