Intersections : gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels /

Intersections : gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels /

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Main Author: Majaj, Lisa Suhair (Author)

Other Authors: Saliba, Therese., Sunderman, Paula W.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, c2002.

Edition: Frist edition.

Series: Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.

Subjects:

Arabic fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Arabic fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women > Arab countries > Social conditions.

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Call Number: PJ7525.2 .I55

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Table of 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.