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Breaking knees : modern Ara...
"The first of Zakaria Tamer's collections of stories to be published in English as one volume, Breaking Knees is a daring work of art that deals with taboo subjects like religion and sexuality in a direct manner and expresses an urgently felt need for change." "The general theme of Breaking Knees is repression: of the individual by the institutions of state and religion and of individuals by each other, particularly women by men. Thus the question of authority - political, social, sexual and religious - forms the thematic core of the book, with (female) sexuality receiving the lion's share of concern." "Political authority is manifest in the emphasis in many stories on the machinations of the police state - arbitrary arrest and detention, interrogations, corruption. Social authority expresses itself in the patriarchal cultural order and dominance of religious and cultural institutions and conventions that constrain individual freedom. Many stories stress religious hypocrisy and the unfilled sexual expectations of women. In bringing together religion, politics and sexuality (sometimes all three in the same story), the author is telling us indirectly that these forms of oppression are all connected."--Jacket
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monografia Rebiun39093704 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39093704 m o d cr cn||||||||| 100929s2008 enk o 000 j eng d 264873513 475214614 647792731 761391571 1419958380 9781435672840 electronic bk.) 1435672844 electronic bk.) 9781859642030 1859642039 AU@ 000051351915 DEBSZ 422086460 IDEBK eng pn IDEBK CO3 N$T E7B YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCE OCLCQ OCLCO DEBSZ OCLCQ OCLCF CNNOR OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ OCLCL eng ara dlr (3 892.736 22 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3K4w9wG3gkt9kfrCvyMkHG43T Tamir, Zakariya Taksir Rukab. English Breaking knees modern Arabic short stories from Syria Zakaria Tamer ; translated by Ibrahim Muhawi 1st ed Reading Garnet Pub. 2008 Reading Reading Garnet Pub. 1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages) 1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Use copy. Restrictions unspecified star. MiAaHDL "The first of Zakaria Tamer's collections of stories to be published in English as one volume, Breaking Knees is a daring work of art that deals with taboo subjects like religion and sexuality in a direct manner and expresses an urgently felt need for change." "The general theme of Breaking Knees is repression: of the individual by the institutions of state and religion and of individuals by each other, particularly women by men. Thus the question of authority - political, social, sexual and religious - forms the thematic core of the book, with (female) sexuality receiving the lion's share of concern." "Political authority is manifest in the emphasis in many stories on the machinations of the police state - arbitrary arrest and detention, interrogations, corruption. Social authority expresses itself in the patriarchal cultural order and dominance of religious and cultural institutions and conventions that constrain individual freedom. Many stories stress religious hypocrisy and the unfilled sexual expectations of women. In bringing together religion, politics and sexuality (sometimes all three in the same story), the author is telling us indirectly that these forms of oppression are all connected."--Jacket Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library. 2024. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2024. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Short stories, Arabic- 20th century- Translations into English Short stories. Short stories, Arabic. Kurzgeschichte. Arabic fiction- Syria. Noveller. General. Short Stories. Syrien. Short stories, Arabic Arabic fiction short stories. Short stories, Arabic. Translations. Short stories. Nouvelles. Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937-) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvcY6RfvxFPg34WbFPRKd Print version Tamir, Zakariya. Taksir Rukab. English. Breaking knees. 1st ed. Reading : Garnet Pub., 2008 9781859642030 (OCoLC)259711288