Contemporary Arab Women Writers:

Anastasia Valassopoulos

Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context - London; New York: Routledge, 2007 - x, 176 p., 24 cm - Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; 21 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Women, not heroines or icons of modernity -- 2. Again: Nawal El Saadawi -- -- 3. Danger and creativity: Lebanese war novelists -- 4. The Garnet series: translations -- 5. Ahlam Mosteghanemi and Ahdaf Soueif: 'physical textures' and 'exceptional events' -- 6. Re-exoticizing the Orient.

9781138010345


Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism
Women authors