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Autore |
Al-Samman Hanadi |
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Titolo |
Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / / Hanadi Al-Samman |
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Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Collana |
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Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Emigration and immigration in literature |
Liberty in literature |
Identity (Psychology) in literature |
Women in literature |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic - History and criticism |
Arabic literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Arabic literature - Europe - History and criticism |
Culture in literature |
Arabic literature - America - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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