Stories by Egyptian women : my grandmother's cactus / introduced and translated by Marilyn Booth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Booth, Marilyn.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Arabic--Egypt--Translations into English.

Short stories, Arabic.

Arabic fiction--Women authors--Translations into English.

Arabic fiction.

Arabic fiction--20th century--Translations into English.

Women--Egypt--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Women.

Arabic fiction--Women authors.

Women--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Egypt.

Genre:

Fiction.

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 165 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First University of Texas Press edition.

Other Title:

My grandmother's cactus

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993.

Summary:

"Egyptian Women have been writing short stories since the 1890s and have made a special contribution to the development of the genre in the twentieth century. This collection presents eight short-story writers whose work began to emerge in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are exploring new themes, linguistic and symbolic fields, and literary structures. Some are trying to break down traditional genre boundaries, while others are exploring the specifically Arabic and Egyptian heritages of narrative and tradition."--Jacket.

Contents:

Woman on the grass ; Zeenat marches in the President's funeral / Salwa Bakr

The sea knows ; The feast / Seham Bayomi

The sleeping city ; When the chickens escaped / Mona Ragab

A house for us ; The day the madness stopped ; Jonah of the sea / Etidal Osman

Smoke ring ; A small world ; City of cardboard / Ibtihal Salem

Dreaming of dishes ; Your face, my children and the olive branches ; The way to the Seventh / Neamat el-Biheiri

Safsaafa and the general ; I saw the date-palms / Radwa Ashour

Things cast down on the road are lost ; In search of a maze / Sahar Tawfiq.

Notes:

Originally published in Great Britain under title: My grandmother's cactus.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Stories by Egyptian women.

ISBN:

0292708033

9780292708037

OCLC:

27035764