Rituals of memory in contemporary Arab women's writing
By: Brinda Mehta.
Series: Gender, culture, and politics of the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815631354
Subjects: Arabic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Memory in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Palestinian women and the problematics of survival: Liana Badr's The eye of the mirror; title: Spatial impositions, circularity, and memory: Malika Mokeddem's Les hommes qui marchent and Le sicle des sauterelles; title: The politics of the female body: Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in their apartment and Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: tales of a harem girlhood; title: Creative dissidence and religious contentions: the works of Nawal El Saadawi; title: Cities under siege and the language of survival: Hanan al-Shaykh's Beirut blues and Nuha al-Radi's Baghdad diaries; title: The semiology of food: Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent.