Al-Samman, Hanadi. <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/> "Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780815634027 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0815634021 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0815653298 9780815653295 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015035801 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arabic literature--History and criticism.--America<br/>Arabic literature--History and criticism.--Europe<br/>Arabic literature--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Autobiographical fiction, Arabic--History and criticism.<br/>Psychic trauma in literature.<br/>Identity (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Liberty in literature.<br/>Emigration and immigration in literature.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>Culture in literature.<br/>Arabic literature.<br/>Arabic literature--Women authors.<br/>Autobiographical fiction, Arabic.<br/>Culture in literature.<br/>Emigration and immigration in literature.<br/>Identity (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Liberty in literature.<br/>Psychic trauma in literature.<br/>Women in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>America.<br/>Europe.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ8502  / .A47 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>892.7/099287