Samira Aghacy, Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel, Edinburgh University Press, 2020; pp. 186.

Document Type : Book Review

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Cairo University

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This is a book review of the following book: Samira Aghacy, Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel, Edinburgh University Press, 2020. The book offers an original study of the representations of old age and aging in modern Arab novels. The analysis covers fifteen texts (published in Arabic, some of which have been translated into English) written across three decades, and hence represents the socio-cultural manifestations and transformations that have affected a diversified Arab ageing population.The book’s forte lies in its attempt and success to counter ageism in literary studies, and move elderly men and women from the margins of literary representation to the centre of critical attention. In this sense, Samira Aghacy’s Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel offers an original piece of serious research, providing a research model, and inviting an extension of this scholarship across generic boundaries, and into a wider spectrum of the MENA region, in literary studies and beyond.

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Cairo Studies in English
Volume 2022, Issue 1
August 2022
Pages 141-145

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