عنوان

Women'S Testimonies of the "Arab Uprisings:" Writing the Self and the City in Rebellion (2012-2018)

شماره

TL53629

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Women'S Testimonies of the "Arab Uprisings:" Writing the Self and the City in Rebellion (2012-2018)

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Said, Rania

نام ساير پديدآوران

Moreira, Luiza

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

State University of New York at Binghamton

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

متن يادداشت

194 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

State University of New York at Binghamton

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

This dissertation studies the production of the self and the city in women's testimonies of the Arab Uprisings (2011-2018). I look at the ways in which women intellectuals and activists from North Africa and West Asia understand the dynamics of margin and center from their position as urban dwellers in their home countries, in the diaspora, or in exile. Given the transnational nature of this testimonial movement, I selected works in Arabic, French, and English to be able to account for the movement's linguistic and geographic diversity. The first chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the transformations of bourgeois secularist subjectivity and the decentralization of civil resistance in Je prendrai les armes s'il le faut: Tunisie mon combat pour la liberté by Dalila Ben Mbarek Msaddek and Valérie Urman. The second chapter studies Ahdaf Soueif's diasporic nostalgia and the mythologization of Cairo and Tahrir Square in the memoir Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed (2014). The third chapter analyzes Samar Yazbek's testimonial project by focusing on the author's production of her exilic self as a dissident feminist and secular intellectual in relation to the besieged cities of Syria. I demonstrate that while trauma and nostalgia shape the narrative representation of Tunis, Cairo, Damascus, and their peripheries, the authorial project in all these texts remains essentially concerned with re-writing the figure of the Arab intellectual, from below and from a more gender-conscious perspective.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Middle Eastern literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Modern literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Womens studies

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Said, Rania

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Moreira, Luiza

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

State University of New York at Binghamton

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y