Modern Arabic Literature

Primary Reading:

Zainab (1913), Mohammed Hussein Haikal

* Chapters 1&2 can be read in full on Google Books:  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dxGSDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=zainab+novel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPmvCMpY7sAhWXTxUIHQKICfQQuwUwAXoECAYQBw#v=onepage&q&f=false

* Scanned extracts in pdf below

Core Reading: 

Elliott Colla, ‘How Zaynab Became the First Arabic Novel,’ History Compass 7, no.1 (2009): 214-225. (pdf below)

Recommended Reading:

Roger Allen, ‘The Novel: Parameters of Definition’ in The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995), pp. 1-10.

Wen-chin Ouyang, ‘Prologue: Presenting the Past: The Arabic Novel and the Dialectics of Modernisation’ in Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 1-34.

Samah Selim, The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 (London: Routledge, 2004).

Hanan Kholoussy, For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Qasim Amin, The Liberation and Women and The New Woman, trans. Samiha Sidhom Peterson (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000)