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portada Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities: Disability Portrayals in Muslim World Literature and Culture (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
164
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781498569576
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Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities: Disability Portrayals in Muslim World Literature and Culture (in English)

Saloua Ali Ben Zahra (Author) · Lexington Books · Hardcover

Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities: Disability Portrayals in Muslim World Literature and Culture (in English) - Saloua Ali Ben Zahra

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Synopsis "Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities: Disability Portrayals in Muslim World Literature and Culture (in English)"

This book explores portrayals and predicaments 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 including Francophone Moroccan and Algerian fiction, Egyptian Middle Eastern film, as well as Tunisian song and television. In line with theorists Aijaz Ahmad and Ato Quayson's objection to reading Third World literature as "national allegory," The author argues that rather than being metaphors or allegories, disabled characters represent persons with disabilities in their culture and act as a mirror upon their changing societies. Contemporary Maghrebians and Muslims with disabilities find themselves at an intersection of conflicting and competing cultures, their native Islamic culture and Westernizing lifestyles. In the rush to import everything Western, despite humanitarian Islamic teachings regarding the disabled, are often abandoned. In situations of fundamentalist menace, the disabled, who tend to be the most vulnerable and abused fraction of Arab/Muslim society, suffer the worst, especially women.

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