Arab Women's Lives Retold
Subtitle: Exploring Identity Through Writing (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Contributors: Miriam Cooke (Foreword); Nawar Al-Hassan Golley (Editor)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: October 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780815631224
Subjects: Black studies; Islamic studies; Women's studies; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Ethnic Cultures - General; Middle Eastern; Women; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - General; Arab countries; Autobiography; Biography; Feminists; Women authors
Description: Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this anthology explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. Even as the collection dismantles standard notions of Arab female subservience, the works presented here go well beyond the confines of those traditional boundaries. The book explores the many routes Arab women writers have taken to speak to each other, to their readers, and to the world at large. Drawing from a rich body of literature, the essays collectively attest to the surprisingly lively and committed roles Arab women play in varied geographic regions, at home and abroad. These recent writings assess how the interplay between individual, private, ethnic identity and the collective, public, global world of politics has impacted Arab women's rights.