Male Domination, Female Revolt: Race, Class, and Gender in Kuwaiti Women's Fiction Tapa dura - 2009
de Ishaq Tijani
Descripción de contraportada
This book investigates various forms of women s resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women s fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women born before or in the first half of the twentieth century as resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change.
Detalles
- Título Male Domination, Female Revolt: Race, Class, and Gender in Kuwaiti Women's Fiction
- Autor Ishaq Tijani
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 166
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Brill
- Fecha de publicación 2009
- ISBN 9789004167797 / 900416779X
- Peso 0.44 libras (0.20 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.7 x 6.4 x 0.6 pulgadas (24.64 x 16.26 x 1.52 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code 892.7
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 261
