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Benzahra, Saloua Ali.

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Representations of the disabled in Arab/Islamic culture and literature from North Africa and the Middle East.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Representations of the disabled in Arab/Islamic culture and literature from North Africa and the Middle East./
Author:	Benzahra, Saloua Ali.
Description:	229 p.
Notes:	Director: Timothy A. Brennan.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3037464
ISBN:	0493505830

Representations of the disabled in Arab/Islamic culture and literature from North Africa and the Middle East.
Benzahra, Saloua Ali.

Representations of the disabled in Arab/Islamic culture and literature from North Africa and the Middle East. - 229 p.

Director: Timothy A. Brennan.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2002.

This dissertation concerns disabled characters who inhabit Post-colonial Middle Eastern and North African texts, ranging from popular culture to high classical literature and including song, fiction, television and film representations. They represent persons with disabilities in their culture and act as a mirror held up to their societies. Exploring what it means to be a postcolonial disabled person entails redefining disability and its causes. A category of “culturally-acquired and engineered disabilities” emerges. Numerous disabilities are caused and exacerbated by culture, which in the postcolonial context, is an intricate combination of pre-colonial native customs and Western imports.

ISBN: 0493505830Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Representations of the disabled in Arab/Islamic culture and literature from North Africa and the Middle East.
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520 $a This dissertation concerns disabled characters who inhabit Post-colonial Middle Eastern and North African texts, ranging from popular culture to high classical literature and including song, fiction, television and film representations. They represent persons with disabilities in their culture and act as a mirror held up to their societies. Exploring what it means to be a postcolonial disabled person entails redefining disability and its causes. A category of “culturally-acquired and engineered disabilities” emerges. Numerous disabilities are caused and exacerbated by culture, which in the postcolonial context, is an intricate combination of pre-colonial native customs and Western imports.
520 $a Contemporary Arabs and Muslims with disabilities find themselves at an intersection of conflicting and competing cultures, their native Islamic culture and Western life styles. In the rush to import everything Western, their fellow able-bodied Arab Muslims abandon them. In so doing, they betray a forgetfulness of their heritage combined with a misunderstanding of Western culture, since they tend to copy mostly its consumerist aspects, instead of adopting and adapting useful values and services, such as the positive teaching about and servicing of the disabled that we find in the West, particularly in the United States. The impact of negative Westernizing trends on the disabled who live in Middle Eastern and North African societies is a recurrent theme in the dissertation.
520 $a In my opening chapter on the <italic>Quran</italic>, I argue that the neglect and mistreatment of the disabled in the Muslim world are unscriptural. I provide textual evidence against fundamentalist misreadings of scripture which, in my view, are themselves “disabling.” In situations of fundamentalist dominance, the disabled, who tend to be the most vulnerable and abused fraction of Arab Muslim society, suffer most severely, especially women. This gender dimension of the argument is highlighted in a chapter about the Moroccan Tahar Ben Jellouns's novel <italic>L'Enfant de sable </italic>, which features a female character with a disability. In this part, the focus is on the predicament of the disabled Arab Muslim woman in a society torn between contemporary fundamentalism and Europeanizing trends.
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