Breaking Knees. (Record no. 36603)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781281786005
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781859642030
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC5121641
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL5121641
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System control number (CaONFJC)MIL178600
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System control number (OCoLC)1027153353
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Original cataloging agency MiAaPQ
Language of cataloging eng
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PJ7864.A384
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 892.7
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tamer, Zakaria.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Breaking Knees.
264 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Reading :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Perseus Book LLC (Ingram),
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2008.
264 #4 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Date of publication, distribution, etc �2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (177 pages)
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Summary, etc The first of Zakaria Tamer's collections of stories to be published in English as a complete unit, Breaking Knees is a daring work of art that deals with taboo subjects like religion and sexuality in a frank manner and expresses an urgently felt need for change. The general theme of Breaking Knees is repression: of the individual by the institutions of state and religion and of individuals by each other, particularly women by men. Thus the question of authority - political, social, sexual and religious - forms the thematic core of the book, with (female) sexuality receiving the lion's share of concern. Political authority is manifest in the emphasis in many stories on the machinations of the police state - arbitrary arrest and detention, interrogations, corruption. Social authority expresses itself in the patriarchal cultural order and dominance of religious and cultural institutions and conventions that constrain individual freedom. Many stories stress religious hypocrisy and the unfilled sexual expectations of women. In bringing together religion, politics and sexuality (sometimes all three in the same story), the author is telling us indirectly that these forms of oppression are all connected.
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Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Muhawi, Ibrahim.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Print version:
Main entry heading Tamer, Zakaria
Title Breaking Knees: Modern Arabic Short Stories from Syria
Place, publisher, and date of publication Reading : Perseus Book LLC (Ingram),c2008
International Standard Book Number 9781859642030
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856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://ezproxy01.ny.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ircp3g4/detail.action?docID=5121641
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