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• W16717892 abstract "Hoda Elsadda. Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt 1892-2008 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 304 pages. Hardcover $39.95Hoda Elsadda's new study of Arabic literature delivers what it promises in the wide scope of its title and more. Not is it a study of the complex interactions between gender and nation in the Arabic novel from Egypt over a period of more than one hundred years, but it is also a crucial intervention in writing Arabic literary history. As a literary history of modern Egypt it gives a narration of the development of Arabic literature written in Egypt broadly, while also delving into the question of canon formation, the role of elite players in shaping literary norms and how gender is central to these projects. This is not the first study of Arabic literature in recent years to offer a broad narrative of literary history while also focusing on specific concepts and themes, Samah Selim's The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt 1880-1985 (London: Routledge, 2004) is another example. Like Selim's work, Elsadda's contribution is also successful in managing to weave a series of complex theoretical reflections into a larger narration about the modern novel in Egypt.Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel is important because it helps to prod the field of Arabic literary studies into more challenging and critical directions that ultimately will lead to more productive discussions within the field and beyond it. The theoretical framework here does not push the reader in particularly unexpected directions like other recent studies, for example Shaden Tageldin's Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), which makes a series of arguments about cultural imperialism being linked to what she calls translational seduction based on a contradictory love by the colonized for the colonizer. Elsadda rather takes up two commonly discussed concepts in literary studies of Arabic fiction - gender and nation - and redefines them through deeply contextual arguments about the cultural elite in Egypt.Part of what works so well here is that Elsadda frames the study in such a way that it places itself at the center of the field, as a literary history, not as a text that only deals with gender and nation. These concepts are lenses that she uses to gain insight into the central questions of the novel in ways that so many previous works of literary history do not. She probes questions like: What is the role of gender in canon formation? How do maleness and femaleness get articulated and framed by the cultural and literary elites who promote literary works in particular ways according to rigid notions of both gender and nationalism?A specific example of how Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel places itself at the center of discussions can be seen in her new readings of Naguib Mahfouz's much lauded and frequently discussed Trilogy. Elsadda reads postcolonial and anti-colonial politics into the works of Mahfouz. She neither lets him off the hook for his representations of problematic, oppressive and hierarchal patriarchal practices as exemplified by its protagonist, nor does she label him an anti-feminist for these same representations. Elsadda's location of analysis is within Mahfouz's texts and the discussions around them, particularly how they have and have not been sanctioned by literary elites and how they have and have not been incorporated into the canon as a location of analysis.This study balances writings by women and men in its thoughtful analyses of gender. However, its strongest parts are the sections dedicated to women's writing. Chapter Five: Latifa Zayyat: Gender and Nationalist Politics stands out in particular. This chapter contextualizes Zayyat as a writer and intellectual figure of some stature, including her militant activism as a communist and the development of her thought around feminism. …" @default.
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