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Blindness and Autobiography : Al-Ayyam of Taha Husayn / Fedwa Malti-Douglas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 899Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: 1988Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400859375
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 892/.78509 B 19
LOC classification:
  • PJ7832.U7125 Z46335 1988eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. BLINDNESS AND SOCIETY -- Chapter One. Blindness I: Recognition -- Chapter Two. Blindness II: Conflict -- Chapter Three. Blindness III: Resolution -- Chapter Four. Power -- Chapter Five. Traditional/Modern, East/West -- PART II. BLINDNESS AND WRITING -- Chapter Six. Narration -- Chapter Seven. Blind Writing, Blind Rhetoric -- Chapter Eight. Humor -- Chapter Nine. Narrative Techniques -- Chapter Ten. Time -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the sustained literary analysis here presented by Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Born into a modest family and blinded in childhood, Husayn nevertheless conquered first his own and then a European educational system to become one of his country's leading modernizers. Professor Malti-Douglas shows that the personal, social, and literary reality of the hero's blindness gives the autobiography its unity and force. Blindness and Autobiography is not only a rich explication of al-Ayyam but a pioneering study of the interaction between a severe physical handicap and the autobiographical process. It adds a new perspective to the contemporary discussion of the cultural uses of the body.The first part of the book explores blindness and society, from the evolving conflict between personal and social conceptions of the handicap to the way blindness redefines the more familiar issues of traditional versus modern, East versus West. The second section examines the relationship of blindness to the autobiography's ecriture, rhetoric, and narration.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. BLINDNESS AND SOCIETY -- Chapter One. Blindness I: Recognition -- Chapter Two. Blindness II: Conflict -- Chapter Three. Blindness III: Resolution -- Chapter Four. Power -- Chapter Five. Traditional/Modern, East/West -- PART II. BLINDNESS AND WRITING -- Chapter Six. Narration -- Chapter Seven. Blind Writing, Blind Rhetoric -- Chapter Eight. Humor -- Chapter Nine. Narrative Techniques -- Chapter Ten. Time -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter

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The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the sustained literary analysis here presented by Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Born into a modest family and blinded in childhood, Husayn nevertheless conquered first his own and then a European educational system to become one of his country's leading modernizers. Professor Malti-Douglas shows that the personal, social, and literary reality of the hero's blindness gives the autobiography its unity and force. Blindness and Autobiography is not only a rich explication of al-Ayyam but a pioneering study of the interaction between a severe physical handicap and the autobiographical process. It adds a new perspective to the contemporary discussion of the cultural uses of the body.The first part of the book explores blindness and society, from the evolving conflict between personal and social conceptions of the handicap to the way blindness redefines the more familiar issues of traditional versus modern, East versus West. The second section examines the relationship of blindness to the autobiography's ecriture, rhetoric, and narration.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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In English.

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