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

Title
Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / Saloua Aali Ben Zahra.
Author
Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali
Publication
  • Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xxiv, 139 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 18-237
ISBN
  • 9781498569576
  • 1498569579
  • 9781498569583
  • 1498569587
LCCN
2017039646
OCLC
1002835801
Author
Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali, author.
Title
Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities : disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / Saloua Aali Ben Zahra.
Publisher
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali author. Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498569583
Research Call Number
JFE 18-237
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