Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967

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199 Index Abdel Hadi (fict.), 73, 76, 77 Abdel-Karim (fict.), 37, 38, 39, 41, 43 Abdel-Nasser, Gamal, 167 Abdel-Wahid (fict.), 120, 123 Abdil Wahid Najjar Marmuq (fict.): anger with Hassiba’s disappearance, 23–24; attempt to reestablish control, 30–31, 108; discomfort in new surroundings, 30; interference in Fadil’s marriage, 24; marriage of, 24–25; Shamil’s view of, 28 Abi Shabaka, Elias, 19 Abood (fict.), 123 Al-Abrass (fict.), 153, 154–55 Al-Abrass’s mother (fict.), 157 absolutist ideologies, 9 Abu Ahmad (fict.), 127 Abu al-Shabab, Wassef, 64n10 Abu-Lughod, Leila, 24n2 Abu-Rabi‘, Ibrahim, 56n3, 97, 170 Abu Salem (fict.), 72–73, 74–75, 76 Abu Salem’s sons (fict.), 75–76 Abu Salem’s wife (fict.), 76 Abu-Zeid, Nasr Hamid, 5, 180–81 Al-Adab, 181 Adawiyya Hammoud (fict.), 114, 115 Adnan (fict.), 83 aggression, 9, 31, 33, 75–76, 152–53. See also violence ahadith, 173 Ahmad (fict., freedom fighter), 57 Ahmad (fict., son of Ijayel), 120 Ahmad (fict., Zahra’s brother), 44, 45, 50, 53 Ahmad, Aijaz, 13 Ahmad Murad (fict.), 101, 104 alcohol, 115, 116 allegory, 8, 14, 15, 97 Allen, Roger, 10 alterity: Hassiba as, 23–24; of homoerotic tendencies, 139; of penguin man, 142–43; society’s intolerance of, 140; women/ subordinate men as, 20–21, 22 Amin, Noura, 104–5n7 Al-Amir, Rasha: The Day of Judgment, 168–79, 181; focus on religious personality in conflict with extremism, 171–72, 181; interrogation of religious worldview, 169; on love/personal life vs. institutional religious life, 173–76; sheikh’s parallel to al-Mutanabbi’s poetry, 179; on source of Islamism, 182; taboo of distance surrounding religious persons broken by, 169 Anderson, Benedict, 57 Anta munthu al-yawm (Subul), 5–6 Anwar (fict.), 115 Arab critics, 183 Arab-Israeli War (1973), 2 Note: Fictional characters are indicated by (fict.) following the uninverted name. 200 | index Arab-Israeli War (1967): effect on Assi, 39; effect on pan-Arab entity, 6–7; effect on private lives, 15; effect on Walid Masoud, 5, 59, 63; effects on gender roles, 5–9; Nasser’s comment on, 167; shift to local issues in literature following, 10 Arab literature: allusions to homosexuality in, 140n4 (see also effeminacy; homosexuality /homoerotic tendencies); centrality of political life in, 7–8; characteristics of, 16; choices of in this work, 16–17; common language of, 10; conflation of private/public spheres, 13–15; critics of, 183; humor in, 8, 119, 124, 126, 128, 129; lack of advocacy of Islamic values in, 180, 181–82; of Oedipus King, 19–22; political commitment of, 7–8, 11–16; precedence of collective over private issues in, 7; regional/geopolitical influences on, 10–12 (see also Iraqi literature; Lebanese literature; Palestinian literature; Syrian literature); resistance to censorship, 8, 14, 15, 97, 181 (see also irony); on role of women in postwar 1967 era, 7; subversiveness of, 97, 98, 118; themes linking novels, 10; themes of women writers, 11–12. See also Arab writers; specific novel by title “Arab Novel, The” (Kilpatrick), 10 Arab socialist era, 6n4 Arab society, 167 Arab subjectivity, 14, 97 Arab writers: effects of Lebanese civil war on, 130; fascination with fida’i, 57; fear of state persecution, 181; involvement in politics, 7–8; prison experiences of, 97; provision of voice to censored, 112; resistance to univocal discourse of state, 96, 97, 106, 112–13, 138; subversiveness of writings, 97, 98, 118; topics of, 11–16, 181–84; use of allegory, 8, 14, 15, 97, 181; use of experimental techniques, 14; use of humor, 8, 119, 124, 126, 128, 129; use of tropes/illusions/irony, 8, 98, 181. See also specific writer armed struggle, 55. See also war ‘Asafir al-fajr (‘Usayran), 13 Al-Ashqar, Youssef Habshi: desire to uncover effects of, 89; on homoerotic desires, 92–93; on intellectual masculinity, 85–87; on intellectual opposition to, 85–93; on Iskandar, 87–88; The Shadow and the Echo, 85–93 Asmar (fict.), 86, 87, 88, 89 Assad (fict.), 86–87, 88, 89, 92 Assi (fict.): emasculation of, 38–40, 42; imprisonment of, 37–38; murder of Siham, 40, 43; as narrator of The Gang of the Bloody Rose, 36; relationship with Mu‘tassem, 36, 42–43; remarriage of his mother, 39; results of imprisonment, 38–39, 102; view of Abdel-Karim, 39–40, 41, 42 atavistic masculinity, 37, 40, 141 authorial narration, 8, 33, 35, 36 authoritarian state: absurdity of living under, 125–27; banning of unpatriotic words...