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Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.