Unpacking the native subject -- Inscribing the national subject -- Desiring selves, desiring others -- The hybridity of reform -- The great debate -- Doubleness and duality : allegories of becoming -- Epilogue : towards an aesthetic of the colonial self
Summary
''Examines a crucial period in Arabic literature which has received insufficient attention previously--the pre-modern writers of the 19th century ... whose journalism and fiction not only shaped contemporary opinion but also subtly molded the contours and boundaries of discourse for the generations that followed
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index
