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Intersections : gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels / edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba.
Van Pelt Library PJ7525.2 .I55 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Arabic fiction.
- Arabic fiction--Women authors.
- Arabic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Feminism and literature--Arab countries.
- Feminism and literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Politics in literature.
- Women--Arab countries--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Arab countries.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- A true "intersection," of Arab women's texts that challenges and rewrites the traditional boundaries of nation, gender, and community.
- This rigorously documented collection brings together for the first time original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. The work focuses on texts available in English translation and explores with great theoretical sophistication the relationship of these authors' texts to contemporary phenomena of feminism, nationalism, post-colonialism, war, transnationalism, and societal changes.
- Contents:
- Modernist Arab women writers : a historical overview / Salma Khadra Jayyusi
- Framing Nawal El Saadawi : Arab feminism in a transnational world / Amal Amireh
- Reenvisioning national community in Salwa Bakr's Golden chariot / Magda M. al-Nowaihi
- The sixth day of compassion : the im/possible communities of life toward death / Mary N. Layoun
- Partitions and precedents : Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian political geography / Barbara Harlow
- A country beyond reach : Liana Badr's Writings of the Palestinian diaspora / Therese Saliba
- Strategic androgyny : passing as masculine in Barakat's Stone of laughter / Mona Fayad
- The fourth language : subaltern expression in Djebar's Fantasia / Nada Elia
- Voice, representation, and resistance : Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose / Lisa Suhair Majaj
- Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra : a counter-narrative and a counter-history / Sabah Ghandour.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815629516
- 0815629761
- OCLC:
- 50591034
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