Masculinity and Syrian Fiction

Gender, Society and the Female Gaze

Lovisa Berg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
9780755637669 (ISBN)

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What can novels tell us about masculinity in Syria? In this book, Lovisa Berg explores over 20 Syrian novels covering the last 50 years of the 20th century. Uniquely, she examines only female writers in order to gauge the changing ways in which Syrian women perceived the function of masculinity, and the impact certain attitudes towards masculinity have on men, women, children and Syrian society, from a female perspective. The works of writers from Kulit Khuri to Usayma Darwish are analysed to explore changing attitudes to gender in Syria and the Middle East, as well as the political upheavals within the country and region. We see the idealistically portrayed men in the novels of female authors in the 1950s give way in time to a more critical depictions of patriarchy. Above all, we see through the use of novels a plethora of critiques of masculine hegemony in Syrian society, the authors of which are able with the use of fiction to reorganise and question maleness in a way denied to them in reality. This book will be of interest to scholars of Contemporary Syrian and Arabic Literature, Masculinity Studies and Women’s Studies.

Lovisa Berg is a senior lecturer of Arabic at Dalarna University, Sweden and the head of the Arabic department. She has a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies, her main research topics are modern Syrian literature, Syrian drama series and gender studies. She teaches Arabic literature and language on undergraduate and graduate level.

1. Introduction
2. Becoming a Man – Developing Masculinity
3. Dream Masculinity - Or the Male as a Vehicle for Self-Realisation
4. Real or Ideal Masculinity?
5. Masculinity – a Demanding Role to Play
6. Harmful Masculinity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix: Authors’ Biographies

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780755637669 / 9780755637669
Zustand	Neuware