Contemporary Arab women writers
Subtitle: cultural expression in context
By: Anastasia Valassopoulos
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 21
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415353557; 9780203307090
Subjects: Arabic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women authors, Arab
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: 1. Women, not heroines or icons of modernity; title: 2. Again: Nawal El Saadawi; title: 3. Danger and creativity: Lebanese war novelists; title: 4. The Garnet series: translations; title: 5. Ahlam Mosteghanemi and Ahdaf Soueif: 'physical textures' and 'exceptional events'; title: 6. Re-exoticizing the Orient