Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities disability portrayals in Muslim world literature and culture / Saloua Aali Ben Zahra.

Author/creator Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Ben Zahra, Saloua Ali author. Arab Islamic voices, agencies, and abilities Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017 9781498569576
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LCCN 2017050057
ISBN9781498569583 (Electronic)

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