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Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle EastPublication details: Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002Edition: 1st edDescription: xxx, 287 p., ill.; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0815629516
  • 0815629761
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Contents:
Modernist Arab women writers: a historical overview / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab feminism in a transnational world / Amal Amireh -- Reenvisioning national community in Salwa Bakr's The golden chariot / Magda M. al-Nowaihi -- The sixth day of compassion: the im/possible communities of life toward death / Mary N. Layoun -- Partitions and precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian political geography / Barbara Harlow -- A country beyond reach: Liana Badr's Writings of the Palestinian diaspora / Therese Saliba -- Strategic androgyny: passing as masculine in Barakat's The stone of laughter / Mona Fayad -- The fourth language: subaltern expression in Djebar's Fantasia / Nada Elia -- Voice, representation, and resistance: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra: a counter-narrative and a counter-history / Sabah Ghandour.
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Books Books Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01 D 1476 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available D 1476

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-275) and index.

Modernist Arab women writers: a historical overview / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab feminism in a transnational world / Amal Amireh -- Reenvisioning national community in Salwa Bakr's The golden chariot / Magda M. al-Nowaihi -- The sixth day of compassion: the im/possible communities of life toward death / Mary N. Layoun -- Partitions and precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian political geography / Barbara Harlow -- A country beyond reach: Liana Badr's Writings of the Palestinian diaspora / Therese Saliba -- Strategic androgyny: passing as masculine in Barakat's The stone of laughter / Mona Fayad -- The fourth language: subaltern expression in Djebar's Fantasia / Nada Elia -- Voice, representation, and resistance: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra: a counter-narrative and a counter-history / Sabah Ghandour.

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