Summary: This paper is a literary analysis of Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswany's novels. With a focus on his work "The Yacoubian Building", the paper examines the major forms and motifs of social oppression that al Aswany portraited about the Egyptian society, and it also points out the value of al Aswany's works to understand the Egyptian people.

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Title

• Why read al Aswany? : social oppression and hierarchy in Egyptian writer Alaa al Aswany's fiction

Last modified

• 06/06/2024

Creator

• Thompson, Peter

Contributor

• Missouri Southern State University

Date Created

• 2013

Identifier

• vital:11350

Language

• eng

Publisher

• Missouri Southern State University (Joplin, Mo.)

Resource Type

• Dissertation

Source

• Missouri Southern State University Archive

Subject

• Academic theses
• Social problems in literature
• Arabic literature -- Egypt
• Arabic literature -- Research

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• All documents property of Missouri Southern State University. Contact [email protected] for further information.

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