Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture

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.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Subjects:
People with disabilities in literature.
Literature, Modern > Muslim authors > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
People with disabilities in literature
People with disabilities in motion pictures
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items