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It postulates the historical experience of modern Egypt as largely representative of the general condition of other Arab, Islamic, and postcolonial nation-states, especially as these wrestle with the perennial quest fora viable sense of personal and collective identity in modernity.  \nOne of the book’s major theses is that certain generic properties of the novel, such as its constitutive interest in the individual as an autonomous agent of moral, ethical, political, and sexual choices and desires appear incompatible with entrenched beliefs and norms of traditional Arab society and culture. How the Egyptian novel reconciles this proactive, discursive agency with the aesthetic imperatives ofthe literary genre is a major concern of this study.  \nThe book tackles such broad questions through sustained textual analysis and close reading of a significant number of Egyptian novels. It thus consciously situates the literary text at the heart of the critical performance. Ultimately, the will of the Arabic novel is to imagine the unthinkable and to reinstate in the Arab public debate topics long banished from there, such as the body, sexuality, religious difference, and political dissent may bespeak the absence of a viable Arab civil society and a crippling cultural impasse. Could the Arabic novel be the harbinger of such a civil society and the cultural lever to transport it across, and beyond, the historical impasse?  \nMuhammad Siddiq is Professor at the Department for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.  \nROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURES  \nEditors  \nJames E. Montgomery  \nUniversity of Cambridge  \nRoger Allen  \nUniversity of Pennsylvania  \nPhilip F. Kennedy  \nNew York University  \nRoutledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures is a monograph series devoted to aspects of the literatures of the Near and Middle East and North Africa both modern and pre-modern. It is hoped that the provision of such a forum will lead to a greater emphasis on the comparative study of the literatures of this area, although studies devoted to one literary or linguistic region are warmly encouraged. It is the editors’ objective to foster the comparative and multi-disciplinary investigation of the written and oral literary products of this area.  \n1. SHEHERAZADE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Eva Sallis  \n2. THE PALESTINIAN NOVEL Ibrahim Taha  \n3. OF DISHES AND DISCOURSE Geert Jan van Gelder  \n4. MEDIEVAL ARABIC PRAISE POETRY Beatrice Gruendler  \n5. MAKING THE GREAT BOOK OF SONGS Hilary Kilpatrick  \n6. THE NOVEL AND THE RURAL IMAGINARY IN EGYPT, 1880–1985 Samah Selim  \n7. IBN ABI TAHIR TAYFUR AND ARABIC WRITERLY CULTURE A ninth-century bookman in Baghdad Shawkat M. Toorawa  \n8. RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVESIN MODERN MUSLIM AND JEWISH LITERATURES Edited by Glenda Abramson and Hilary Kilpatrick  \n9. ARABIC POETRY Trajectories of modernity and tradition [Muhsin J. al-Musawi](Muhsin J. al-Musawi)  \n10. MEDIEVAL ANDALUSIAN COURTLY CULTURE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Three ladies and a lover Cynthia Robinson  \n11. WRITING AND REPRESENTATION IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM Muslim Horizons Julia Bray  \n12. NATIONALISM, ISLAM AND WORLD LITERATURE Sites of confluence in the writings of Mahmud al-Masadi Mohamed-Salah Omri  \n13. THE ORAL AND THE WRITTEN IN EARLY ISLAM Gregor Schoeler Translated by Uwe Vagelpohl Edited by James Montgomery  \n14. LITERATURE, JOURNALISM AND THE AVANT-GARDE Intersection in Egypt Elisabeth Kendall  \n15. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Space, travel and transformation Richard van Leeuwen  \n16. ARAB CULTURE AND THE NOVEL Genre, identity, and agency in Egyptian fiction Muhammad Siddiq  \nARAB CULTURE AND THE NOVEL  \nGenre, identity, and agency in Egyptian fiction  \nMuhammad Siddiq  \nFirst published 2007  \nby Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Ro","cbCaihrl98R8aM9c","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihrl98R8aM9c","pdf",1368145,255,"English","# Contents\n## Preface and preliminaries\n## Main chapters\n## Notes and index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of Arab Culture and the Novel?\",\"answer\":\"It studies the status and role of the novel in modern Arab culture, using modern Egypt as a key representative example.\"},{\"question\":\"What major claim does the book make about the novel’s properties?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that certain generic features of the novel—especially its depiction of individuals as autonomous moral, ethical, political, and sexual agents—conflict with traditional Arab beliefs and norms.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book approach its questions?\",\"answer\":\"It uses sustained textual analysis and close reading of a significant number of Egyptian novels, placing the literary text at the center of critical inquiry.\"}]","ARAB CULTURE AND THE NOVEL - Genre, identity, and agency in Egyptian fiction | PDF",1789939269,393]