TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanadi Al-Samman
TI  - Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings
T2  - Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
SN  - 9780815634027
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Syracuse
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - America
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Europe
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Liberty in literature
KW  - Emigration and immigration in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Culture in literature
KW  - Ghada Samman
KW  - Hamida Na'na'
KW  - Hoda Barakat
KW  - Hanan al-Shaykh
KW  - Salwa al-Neimi
N1  - "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
ER  -