Anxiety of Erasure:
Hanadi Al-Samman
Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings - xi, 294 p.,; 24 cm - Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East .
"Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) 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.
9780815634027
Arabic literature--History and criticism--America
Arabic literature--History and criticism--Europe
Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism
Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism
Psychic trauma in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Liberty in literature
Emigration and immigration in literature
Women in literature
Culture in literature
Ghada Samman
Hamida Na'na'
Hoda Barakat
Hanan al-Shaykh
Salwa al-Neimi
Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings - xi, 294 p.,; 24 cm - Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East .
"Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) 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.
9780815634027
Arabic literature--History and criticism--America
Arabic literature--History and criticism--Europe
Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism
Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism
Psychic trauma in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Liberty in literature
Emigration and immigration in literature
Women in literature
Culture in literature
Ghada Samman
Hamida Na'na'
Hoda Barakat
Hanan al-Shaykh
Salwa al-Neimi