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Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / Hanadi Al-Samman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Al-Samman, Hanadi, author.
- Series:
- Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic literature--America--History and criticism.
- Arabic literature.
- Arabic literature--Europe--History and criticism.
- Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Arabic literature--Women authors.
- Autobiographical fiction, Arabic--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, Arabic.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Liberty in literature.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Culture in literature.
- America.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [2015]
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815634027
- 0815634021
- 9780815653295
- 0815653298
- OCLC:
- 910530483
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