Reviews: The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature
In the introduction, Hamdar engages current debates on illness and disability drawing from sociology, the medical humanities, disability studies, and the study of health and medicine, all of which add to the depth and scope of her scholarship. Hamdar proceeds with an insightful survey of health and...
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743816000167 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.proquest.com/docview/1778961327?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals |
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| Summary: | In the introduction, Hamdar engages current debates on illness and disability drawing from sociology, the medical humanities, disability studies, and the study of health and medicine, all of which add to the depth and scope of her scholarship. Hamdar proceeds with an insightful survey of health and illness in Arabic literature and culture, focusing on the scarcity of scientific studies in Arabic on the anthropology of health and gender; the relation between Islam and scientific advancement; and "spirit possession" as a means to diagnose and cure illness. What is intriguing about this chapter and the book as a whole is the systematic manner in which Hamdar addresses nuances between the texts and how each discussion builds on her previous analysis, culminating in her examination of the last three novels. Because of the dearth of fiction challenging the marginalization and silence of the disabled female in Arabic literature, Hamdar focuses in Chapter 3 solely on three writers: one male writer and two female writers who published their work between 2000 and the present. |
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