TY - BOOK ID - 77934599 TI - Male domination, female revolt PY - 2009 SN - 1282602470 9786612602474 9047442679 9789047442677 9781282602472 9789004167797 900416779X 6612602473 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Arabische Literatur KW - Frau und Mann KW - Frauenliteratur KW - Geschlechterrolle (Motiv) KW - Rasse (Motiv) KW - Rasse KW - Soziale Klasse (Motiv) KW - Arabic fiction KW - Patriarchy in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Social classes in literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Arabic literature KW - Motiv KW - Frau und Mann. KW - Rasse. KW - Arabische Literatur. KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Arabisch KW - Kuwait UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77934599 AB - This book investigates various forms of women’s resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women’s fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition on race, class, and gender relations in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region in general. It argues that the selected texts portray the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women—born before or in the first half of the twentieth century—as resistant and/or revolutionary figures, contrary to the common notion of their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This book demonstrates how Kuwaiti women writers have used literature to work for, and contribute to, social change. ER -