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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454716303321

Titolo

Arab women writers [[electronic resource] ] : a critical reference guide, 1873-1999 / / edited by Radwa Ashour, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Hasna Reda-Mekdashi ; translated by Mandy McClure

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, c2008

ISBN

1-61797-554-0

977-416-267-6

Edizione

[Electronic edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (541 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ʻĀshūrRaḍwá

GhazoulFerial Jabouri <1939->

Reda-MekdashiHasna

Disciplina

892.7099287

Soggetti

Arabic literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Arabic literature - Women authors

Women authors, Arab - Arab countries - History

Women authors, Arab - Arab countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-526).

Nota di contenuto

9789774161469; 9789774161469

Sommario/riassunto

Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics and writers from the Arab wo