Cultural criticism in Egyptian women's writing
By: Caroline Seymour-Jorn
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Syracuse
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780815632863
Subjects: Literature and society; Egyptian Women authors; Arabic fiction; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Social conflict in literature; Political and social views; Women authors; Social problems in literature; Women in literature
Description: xli, 182 p. ; 22 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The 1970s writers in context; title: Salwa Bakr: the poetics of marginalization; title: Ebtihal Salem: journeys into memory and experience; title: Nemat El-Behairy: writing transgression; title: Radwa Ashour: fiction writing as a history of the subjective; title: Etidal Osman: Egyptian women's writing and creativity; title: Conclusion.