| Series |
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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| Contents |
Introduction: Al-Maw'udah/Shahrazad, icons of erasure and revolutionary resurrection -- Arab women and the experience of diaspora -- Anxiety of erasure: Arab women's authorship as trauma -- Mosaic autobiography: Ghada Samman's The impossible novel and Hanan Al-Shaykh's The locust and the bird -- Diasporic haunting: Ghada Samman's The square moon and A masquerade for the dead -- Transforming nationhood from within the minefield: Hamida Na'na''s The homeland -- Paradigms of disease and domination: Hoda Barakat's The tiller of waters, Disciples of passion, The stone of laughter, and My master and my lover -- Border crossings: cultural collisions and reconciliation: Hanan Al-Shaykh's Only in London -- Unearthing the archives, inscribing unspeakable secrets: Salwa Al-Neimi's The proof of the honey, The book of secrets, and poetry collections -- Postscript: from trauma to triumph: Samar Yazbek's A woman in the crossfire: diaries of the Syrian Revolution. |
| General note | "Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015035801 |
| ISBN | 9780815634027 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
