Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings
Material type: TextSeries: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle EastPublisher: Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015Description: xi, 294 p.,; 24 cmISBN:- 9780815634027
- Arabic literature -- America -- History and criticism
- Arabic literature -- Europe -- History and criticism
- 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
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"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.
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