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Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Al-Samman
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Description for Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Hardcover. "Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw’udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland.
Al-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of five ... Read more
Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw’udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland.
Al-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of five ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815634027
SKU
V9780815634027
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About Al-Samman
Hanadi Al-Samman is associate professor of Arabic language and literature in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia, USA.
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