trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings /
Hanadi Al-Samman.
First edition.
Syracuse :
Syracuse University Press,
2015.
1 online resource
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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JSTOR
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0815634021
Arabic literature-- America-- History and criticism.
Arabic literature-- Europe-- History and criticism.
Arabic literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic-- History and criticism.