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Reading Arab women's autobiographies : Shahrazad tells her story /

The author applies a number of Western critical theories to Arab women's autobiographical works, including Marxism, feminism, colonial discourse & narrative theory, & at the same time interrogates these theories against chosen texts to test their adequacy for analysis of writings from o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2003.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Political theory : colonial discourse, feminist theory, and Arab feminism
  • Why colonial discourse?
  • Feminism, nationalism, and colonialism in the Arab world
  • Huda Shaarawi's Harem years : the memoirs of an Egyptian feminist
  • Narrative theory : autobiography
  • Autobiography and sexual difference
  • Arab autobiography : a historical survey
  • Analysis of texts
  • Anthologies
  • Fadwa Tuqan's Mountainous journey, difficult journey
  • Nawal el-Saadawi
  • The literary and the political.