Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / Saloua Ali Ben Zahra.

This book explores portrayals of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post-colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture. Arab/Muslim characters in Arab, Islamic, Islamist, Francophone, and global societies are explored.

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Main Author: Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Al Qur'an's teachings with respect to the disabled -- The Tunisian deaf mute through the lens of American Orientalism -- Tunisian camera's treatment of disability -- The disabled native: ressource humaine for the French: a literary study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombéza -- The case of female characters with disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "cure or kill": a disability study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable [Sand child] -- Disability and shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: what it means to be a Pakistani disabled postcolonial woman -- The Egyptian visually-challenged Sheikh Husni's treatment of blindness in the Egyptian film Al Kitkat -- Iraqi in Paris: speaking volumes: the bond in deafness of an Iraqi father and son -- Conclusion. 
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650 0 |a People with disabilities in literature. 
650 0 |a Literature, Modern  |x Muslim authors  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a People with disabilities in motion pictures. 
650 7 |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY  |x Literary.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a People with disabilities in literature  |2 fast 
650 7 |a People with disabilities in motion pictures  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast 
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