Breaking knees : modern Arabic short stories from Syria /

Breaking knees : modern Arabic short stories from Syria /

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Author / Creator:	Tāmir, Zakarīyā. تامر، زكريا.
Uniform title:	Taksir Rukab. English
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Reading : Garnet Pub., 2008.
Description:	xiv, 162 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Short stories, Arabic -- 20th century -- Translations into English. Short stories, Arabic. Short stories, Arabic -- Syria -- Translations into English. Arabic fiction -- 21st century -- Translations into English. Short stories. Short stories, Arabic. Translations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7471738

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Other authors / contributors:	Muhawi, Ibrahim, 1937- مهوي، إبراهيم، 1937.
ISBN:	9781859642030 1859642039
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Online version: Tāmir, Zakarīyā Taksir Rukab. English. Breaking knees. 1st ed. Reading : Garnet Pub., 2008

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Call Number:	PJ7864.A384 A26 2008
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