| Description |
1 online resource (x, 176 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 21 |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 21.
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| Contents |
1. Women, not heroines or icons of modernity -- 2. Again: Nawal El Saadawi -- -- 3. Danger and creativity: Lebanese war novelists -- 4. The Garnet series: translations -- 5. Ahlam Mosteghanemi and Ahdaf Soueif: 'physical textures' and 'exceptional events' -- 6. Re-exoticizing the Orient |
| Summary |
This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said's groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos raises the profile of Arab women writers by examining how they negotiate contexts and experiences that have come to be identified with postcoloniality such as the preoccupation with Western feminism, political conflict and war, the social effects of non-con |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women authors, Arab.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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Arabic literature -- Women authors
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Women authors, Arab
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Arabisch
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Frauenliteratur
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Schriftstellerin
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Författare -- Mellanöstern -- Algeriet -- Egypten.
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Feminism.
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Arabiska kvinnliga författare.
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Arabische Staaten
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Arabisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203307090 |
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0203307097 |
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