| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxvi, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction, Contemporary Arab women's autobiographical writings / Nawar Al-Hassan Golley -- Passage through the harem : historicizing a western obsession in Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage : from Cairo to America-- a Woman's Journey / Bernadette Andrea -- Dismembering the gaze : speleology and vivisection in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia / Karina Eileraas -- Yasmina, an autodiegetic character : herstory and history / Benaouda Lebdai -- Poetic geographies : interracial insurgency in Arab American autobiographical spaces / Keith Feldman -- Postnational ethics, postcolonial politics : Raimonda Tawil's My Home, My Prison / Jamil Khader -- Muslim woman writes back : Leila Abouzeid's Return to Childhood : the Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman / Pauline Homsi Vinson -- Voices across the frontier : Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass : Tales of a Harem Girlhood / Filiz Turhan-Swenson -- To undo what the North has done : fragments of a nation and Arab collectivism in the fiction of Ahdaf Soueif / Mrinalini Chakravorty -- Weaving poetic autobiographies : individual and communal identities in the poetry of Mohja Kahf and Suheir Hammad / Carol Fadda-Conrey -- Arab women write the trauma of imprisonment and exile / Daphne M. Grace -- Journey of belonging : a global(ized) self finds peace / Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, Ahmad Al-Issa -- Art, autobiography, and the maternal abject / Mireille Astore. |
| Subject |
Women -- Arab countries -- Biography.
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Feminists -- Arab countries -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0815631472 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780815631477 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780815631224 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0815631227 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000041722104 |
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NZ1 11432743 |
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