Al-Samman, Hanadi.
Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / Hanadi Al-Samman. - First edition. - xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm. - Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East . - Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East. .
"Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
Introduction: Al-Maw'udah/Shahrazad, icons of erasure and revolutionary resurrection -- Arab women and the experience of diaspora -- Anxiety of erasure: Arab women's authorship as trauma -- Mosaic autobiography: Ghada Samman's The impossible novel and Hanan Al-Shaykh's The locust and the bird -- Diasporic haunting: Ghada Samman's The square moon and A masquerade for the dead -- Transforming nationhood from within the minefield: Hamida Na'na''s The homeland -- Paradigms of disease and domination: Hoda Barakat's The tiller of waters, Disciples of passion, The stone of laughter, and My master and my lover -- Border crossings: cultural collisions and reconciliation: Hanan Al-Shaykh's Only in London -- Unearthing the archives, inscribing unspeakable secrets: Salwa Al-Neimi's The proof of the honey, The book of secrets, and poetry collections -- Postscript: from trauma to triumph: Samar Yazbek's A woman in the crossfire: diaries of the Syrian Revolution.
9780815634027 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0815634021 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0815653298 9780815653295
2015035801
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--America
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--Europe
Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Women in literature.
Culture in literature.
Arabic literature.
Arabic literature--Women authors.
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic.
Culture in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Women in literature.
America.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PJ8502 / .A47 2015
892.7/099287
Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / Hanadi Al-Samman. - First edition. - xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm. - Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East . - Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East. .
"Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
Introduction: Al-Maw'udah/Shahrazad, icons of erasure and revolutionary resurrection -- Arab women and the experience of diaspora -- Anxiety of erasure: Arab women's authorship as trauma -- Mosaic autobiography: Ghada Samman's The impossible novel and Hanan Al-Shaykh's The locust and the bird -- Diasporic haunting: Ghada Samman's The square moon and A masquerade for the dead -- Transforming nationhood from within the minefield: Hamida Na'na''s The homeland -- Paradigms of disease and domination: Hoda Barakat's The tiller of waters, Disciples of passion, The stone of laughter, and My master and my lover -- Border crossings: cultural collisions and reconciliation: Hanan Al-Shaykh's Only in London -- Unearthing the archives, inscribing unspeakable secrets: Salwa Al-Neimi's The proof of the honey, The book of secrets, and poetry collections -- Postscript: from trauma to triumph: Samar Yazbek's A woman in the crossfire: diaries of the Syrian Revolution.
9780815634027 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0815634021 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0815653298 9780815653295
2015035801
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--America
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--Europe
Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Women in literature.
Culture in literature.
Arabic literature.
Arabic literature--Women authors.
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic.
Culture in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Women in literature.
America.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PJ8502 / .A47 2015
892.7/099287