Rituals of memory : in contemporary Arab women's writing / Brinda Mehta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehta, Brinda J.

Series:

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East

Gender, culture, and politics of the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Arabic literature--Women authors.

Memory in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Palestinian women and the problematics of survival: Liana Badr's The eye of the mirror

Spatial impositions, circularity, and memory: Malika Mokeddem's Les hommes qui marchent and Le siècle des sauterelles

The politics of the female body: Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in their apartment and Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: tales of a harem girlhood

Creative dissidence and religious contentions: the works of Nawal El Saadawi

Cities under siege and the language of survival: Hanan al-Shaykh's Beirut blues and Nuha al-Radi's Baghdad diaries

The semiology of food: Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780815631354

0815631359

OCLC:

80020185