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Arab women writers : a critical reference guide, 1873-1999 / edited by Radwa Ashour, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Hasna Reda-Mekdashi ; translated by Mandy McClure.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Standardized Title:
- Dhākirah lil-mustaqbal. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic literature--Women authors.
- Arabic literature.
- Arabic literature--19th century.
- Arabic literature--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Bibliographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 526 pages)
- Edition:
- Electronic edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2008.
- Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics and writers from the Arab wo
- Contents:
- 9789774161469; 9789774161469
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-526).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Originally published in Arabic in 2004 by Nour as Dhakirah lil-mustaqbal : mawsu'at al-katibah al-'Arabiyah.
- ISBN:
- 9781617975547
- 1617975540
- 9789774162671
- 9774162676
- OCLC:
- 527382938
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