Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / Hanadi Al-Samman.
Material type: TextSeries: Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle EastPublisher: Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780815653295
- 0815653298
- Arabic literature -- America -- History and criticism
- Arabic literature -- Europe -- History and criticism
- Arabic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Autobiographical fiction, Arabic -- History and criticism
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Liberty in literature
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Women in literature
- Culture in literature
- Littérature arabe -- Amérique -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature arabe -- Europe -- Histoire et critique
- Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature
- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature
- Liberté dans la littérature
- Émigration et immigration dans la littérature
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Culture dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- African
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern
- Arabic literature
- Arabic literature -- Women authors
- Autobiographical fiction, Arabic
- Culture in literature
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Liberty in literature
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Women in literature
- America
- Europe
- 892.7/099287 23
- PJ8502 .A47 2015eb
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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