Intersections
Subtitle: gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels
By: edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba.
Contributors: Majaj, Lisa Suhair.; Sunderman, Paula W.; Saliba, Therese.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Syracuse
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Arabic fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Arabic fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- Arab countries.; Gender identity in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Politics in literature.; Women -- Social conditions -- Arab countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernist Arab women writers: a historical overview / Salma Khadra Jayyusi; title: Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab feminism in a transnational world / Amal Amireh; title: Reenvisioning national community in Salwa Bakr's The golden chariot / Magda M. al-Nowaihi; title: The sixth day of compassion: the im/possible communities of life toward death / Mary N. Layoun; title: Partitions and precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian political geography / Barbara Harlow; title: A country beyond reach: Liana Badr's Writings of the Palestinian diaspora / Therese Saliba; title: Strategic androgyny: passing as masculine in Barakat's The stone of laughter / Mona Fayad; title: The fourth language: subaltern expression in Djebar's Fantasia / Nada Elia; title: Voice, representation, and resistance: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose / Lisa Suhair Majaj; title: Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra: a counter-narrative and a counter-history / Sabah Ghandour.