Return to Childhood
Subtitle: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman (CMES Modern Middle East Literature in Translation)
Contributors: Leila Abouzeid (Translator); Elizabeth Fernea (Foreword); Heather Logan Taylor (Translator)
Publisher: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780292704909
Subjects: Biography: general; Arabic Prose; Literary Collections; Biography / Autobiography; Arabic; Literature: Classics; Literary; Women; Abu Zayd, Layla; Essays; Middle Eastern; Women Authors; 1950-; Abu Zayd, Layla,; Abåu Zayd, Laylâa,; Authors, Arab; Biography; Childhood and youth; Morocco; Women and literature
Description: Leila Abouzeid, author of Year of the Elephant, has translated her childhood memoir into English. Against the background of Morocco's struggle for independence from French colonial rule, Abouzeid charts her deeply personal journey through family conflicts ignited by the country's civil unrest.