MARC details
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03671cmm a2200433 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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a411188 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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100728s2010 xxu sm 000 0 eng d |
| 009 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED-FIELD FOR ARCHIVAL COLLECTION (VM) [OBSOLETE] |
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411188 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
1459138026 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
FRAS |
| Language of cataloging |
fre |
| Transcribing agency |
FRAS |
| Modifying agency |
FRAS |
| Description conventions |
AFNOR |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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f-ti--- |
| 072 ## - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
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| Subject category code |
OM |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
TN813.9 |
| Edition number |
23A |
| 084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
813.OM |
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xxu |
| 094 ## - |
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| a |
TH-USA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mamelouk, Douja |
| Relator term |
Doctorant |
| Relationship |
305 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
349222 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Redirecting al-nazar |
| Medium |
[Ressource électronique] : |
| Remainder of title |
contemporary Tunisian women novelists return the gaze / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Douja Mariem Mamelouk ; thesis advisor Elliott Colla |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
(233 p.) |
| 502 ## - DISSERTATION NOTE |
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| Dissertation note |
Ph. D. : Arabic language, literature and linguistics : Georgetown University : 2010 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Bibliogr. p. 217-233 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The notion of an objectifying gaze, as described and elaborated in feminist and psychoanalytic theory, may have its correspondent in Arab culture in the concept of al-nazar (vision, gaze or -beholding‖) or perhaps also in the evil eye. In many contemporary Tunisian novels written by women, female protagonists question masculinity and the gendering of Tunisian/Arab society. Three Tunisian women novelists in particular, Amel Mokhtar, Massouda Boubakr and Fethia Hechmi give special attention to visual aspects, such as the gaze, the nazar and the evil eye, when describing male characters. Making use of concepts of the gaze, al-"ayn and al-nazar, I argue that it is no accident that Tunisian women novelists would re-appropriate al-nazar in order to question concepts of masculinity in Tunisian/Arab culture. Instead of lowering the gaze, they create fictional female characters who dare to look back at men and define them through the potency of their female eyes. While looking upon men and masculine behavior, the novelists redefine their perception of male characters as contextually formulated within Tunisian/Arab society. As the female characters take on the gaze and refuse to lower it, they redefine and effectively repossess the nazar. This study challenges the notion proposed by Hanita Brand that mutuality of the gaze does not exist in contemporary Arab literature. Amel Mokhtar's Nakhab al-hayat (1993), al-Kursi alhazzaz (2005) and Maestro (2006) serve to demonstrate the female narrators' attempt to establish mutual gaze with male characters, which often leads to pleasure, while exploring conflicting gender relationships. However, current theories of the gaze prove inadequate in the examination of Massouda Boubakr's Laylat al-ghiyab (1995), Trushqana (1999), and Wada"an Hammurabi (2003) while Arabo-Islamic concepts of al-"ayn allow for a greater nuance of analysis. Boubakr ascends from the personal realm to regional and national levels, asserting that all Arab men are marginal. Finally, Fethia Hechmi captures the masculine through the evil eye in Hafiyat al-ruh (2005), Minna Mawwal (2007) and Maryam tasqut min yad Allah (2009) and condemns men to impotence through female characters. |
| 600 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mokhtar, Amel |
| Dates associated with a name |
(1964-....) |
| 9 (RLIN) |
349225 |
| 600 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Abou Bakr, Massouda |
| Dates associated with a name |
(1954-....) |
| 9 (RLIN) |
182058 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
LITTERATURE ARABE |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2173 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
ROMAN |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2633 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
LITTERATURE TUNISIENNE |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2908 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
LITTERATURE FEMININE |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4758 |
| 651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
TUNISIE |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1128 |
| 600 19 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
مختار، آمال |
| Dates associated with a name |
(1964-....) |
| 600 19 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
أبو بكر، مسعودة |
| Dates associated with a name |
(1954-....) |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Colla, Elliott |
| Dates associated with a name |
(1965-....) |
| Relator term |
Dir. |
| Relationship |
727 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
351687 |
| 700 18 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
كولا، إليوت |
| Dates associated with a name |
(1965-....) |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.fondation.org.ma/dsp/index/a411188-26">http://www.fondation.org.ma/dsp/index/a411188-26</a> |
| 930 ## - EQUIVALENCE OR CROSS-REFERENCE-UNIFORM TITLE HEADING [LOCAL, CANADA] |
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| Uniform title |
411188 |
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a411188 |
| 990 ## - EQUIVALENCES OR CROSS-REFERENCES [LOCAL, CANADA] |
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| Link information for 9XX fields |
El Basri |
