Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.