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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458875103321

Autore

Saʻdāwī Nawāl

Titolo

The essential Nawal El Saadawi [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Adele Newson-Horst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Zed Books, 2010

ISBN

1-84813-902-0

1-282-73864-X

9786612738647

1-84813-336-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Zed essential feminists

Altri autori (Persone)

HorstAdele S. Newson-

Disciplina

892.78609

Soggetti

Arabic literature

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. [337]-340) and index.

Nota di contenuto

About Nawal El Saadawi; Timeline; Preface; Introduction: The World of Nawal El Saadawi or Nawal Zaynab; PART ONE Articles, Essays and Nonfictional Prose; 1 | How to Write and Why; 2 | How to Fight against the Postmodern Slave System; About my dreams; Why are more people going back to religion?; How to fight back?; 3 | First Trip outside the Homeland; 4 | Preface to The Hidden Face of Eve; 5 | Women, Creativity and Dissidence; Linking women, creativity and dissidence; Expanding the understanding of creativity; Old forms, new questions: resistance and change

Towards a new identity built on human solidarity6 | Women and the Poor: The Challenge of Global Justice; What is development?; What is a good government in the South?; Religion, the poor and women; Women and population control; Veiling the mind; Unveiling the mind; How to empower resistance; Notes; 7 | God Above, Husband Below; Notes; 8 | The House of Desolation; Note; 9 | The Streetwalker and the Woman Writer; 10 | Muslim Women in the Market; A postmodern Christian and Muslim feminist; Books by Muslim feminists; Big media stars; Virginity and deception; Mutilation of the mind

Fighting the infidelHow to be in the market; The pleasure of creativity;



11 | Bodour; 12 | Writing and Freedom; 13 | The Three Universal Taboos: Sex, Religion and Politics; Veiling, virginity and the name of the mother; The conflict between the two conceptions of God; 14 | Breeding Terror, or An Uncivilized Clash of Civilizations; Unveiling the mind; Unveiling the mind; Two faces of the same coin; Fighting for peace; 15 | Remapping the World; 16 | Fear and Writing; 17 | Obama's Speech in Cairo; PART TWO Fiction and Poetry; 18 | Death of an Ex-Minister

The death of His Excellency the ex-MinisterThe veil; The greatest crime; Masculine confession; A modern love letter; In camera; A private letter to an artist friend; 19 | My Ideal Mother; 20 | A Paper that was Never Presented for Publication; 21 | Sixteen Short Poems; There is a man; A half-man; Those who saw God; Rewarding the culprit and twice punishing the victim; An interim husband; A different woman; Thieves of honour; In full view of everyone; Arab rulers; Arab rulers once again; They said you were shame personified; The sin suspended in history

Inspired by the verdict pronounced by an Al-Azhar sheikh legitimizing the restoration of the hymenDaughter of Egyptian Isis; My grandmother; My mother; 22 | Inspired by the Summit Meeting with the Elite; 23 | The Impact of Fanatic Religious Thought: A Story of a Young Egyptian Muslim Woman; PART THREE Drama; 24 | Twelve Women in a Cell; Characters; Act One; Act Two; PART FOUR Interviews; 25 | Feminism in Egypt: A Conversation with Nawal El Saadawi; Writer and doctor; Rural change; Working women under Sadat; Women and the left; 26 | Fed Up with Limited Thinking; The novel that was stolen

Their heads are veiled but their belly is naked

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring work never before translated into English, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawi's writing. From novellas and short stories to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex; from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist; from poetry to autobiography, this book is essential for anyone wishing to gain a sense of the breadth of Saadawi's work.