| Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing Contributor(s): Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815631227 ISBN-13: 9780815631224 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007022177 |
| Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.36" W x 9.29" (1.21 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. The collection goes well beyond dismantling standard notions of Arab female subservience, exploring the many ways Arab women writers have learned to speak to each other, to their readers, and to the world at large. Drawing from a rich body of liter-ature, the essays attest to the surprisingly lively and committed roles Arab women play in varied geographic regions, at home and abroad. These recent writings assess how the interplay between individual, private, eth-nic identity and the collective, public, global world of politics has impact-ed Arab women's rights. |