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The Image of Sexuality in Modern Arabic Novel
Jeníková, Jitka ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Lišková, Iva (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The intention of this doctoral thesis is to present a comprehensive account of the evolution of the way sex and sexuality are portrayed in modern Arabic novel and put it in the context of given era, culture and religion. On a selected sample of 30 novels printed between 1934 and 2009 we can trace clear evolution of the central themes, all of which are constantly present throughout the hundred-years-existence of modern Arabic novel. For the sake of greater comprehensibility the thesis is split in two big parts, i.e. female and male sexuality, and further arranged into thematic subchapters all of which discuss specific issues related either to male or female sexuality. Furthermore, individual chapters deal with the topic in general, put it in proper cultural-religious framework and fill in all available historical and statistical data. Next comes the part dedicated to analysis of selected novels portraying sex a sexuality with excerpts translated directly from primary sources. Aside from peculiar themes typical for Arabic culture such as honor, virginity and related issue of honor killings this thesis discusses the way modern Arabic novels deals with both female and male homosexuality, discovering one's body and masturbation, abortion, sexual violence, impotence, infertility and prostitution. Also it...
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The theme of the homosexuality in the modern Arabic prose
Jeníková, Jitka ; Kučera, Petr (referee) ; Ondráš, František (advisor)
This thesis deals with the theme of the homosexuality in the modem Arabic prose, that is to say with the books written in the Arabic cultural environment since the beginning of the twentieth century. The aim of this thesis was to provide a so1id view of the way the homosexuality is presented in the Arabic literature, because the interpretation of different sexual orientation is in the world Arabic studies, let alone in the Czech Arabic studies, really rare. This thesis is divided into two major parts. The first one offers a brief abstract of the historical development of the view on the homosexuality in the Arab world, both from the religious and cultural social point of view. We've tried to show the roots from which grew up the attitude of the reIigious and legal authorities, the way IsIam deals with the homosexuality and the contradictions between the approaches of the society and the religion towards the homosexuality. In the second part we've analyzed eight narrative units written by authors coming from the different regions of the Arab world or of Arabic descent. The authors of those books are both men and women and aH of them deal with the issue of the homosexuality in their works. The primary objective here is to create a holistic view of the way in which a different sexual orientation is treated in...
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