Author: George Stade
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231083744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Author: George Stade
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ISBN: 9789120084268
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Languages : en
Pages : 357
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Author: George Stade
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: George STADE (Chairman of the English Department, at Columbia University.)
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ISBN: 9780231038461
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: George Stade
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Author: Hywel Dix
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441190988
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.
Author: Thomas Jackson Rice
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351106198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Originally published in 1984, Virginia Woolf: Guide to Research is a bibliographic guide to the writings and critical reception of the works of Virginia Woolf. The guide is a simply organized guide that makes easily accessible, a diversified body of critical works on Virginia Woolf. The scholarship is organised into key collections, based around Woolf’s major works of fiction, and contains studies from a variety of content, including periodicals, articles, book chapters as well as foreign-language books.
Author: Nick Rennison
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113460470X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, Fifty Contemporary British Novelists is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.
Author: Harry Raphael Garvin
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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A collection of essays that discuss a wide range of art and literary forms, their religious content, and the fundamental concerns that relate the two. Illustrated.
