1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810329403321

Autore

Gemie Sharif

Titolo

Women's writing and Muslim societies : the search for dialogue, 1920-present / / Sharif Gemie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-299-20137-7

0-7083-2541-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Disciplina

305.48697

Soggetti

Literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Women authors

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Note on Citations; Introduction: A Party with a Hundred Women: on Dialogue,Orientalism and Women's Writing; Travelers' Tales: a Typology; Author and Self; The Politics of Time and Space: a Fractured Modernity; Voyages in Manistan: the Female Traveler and the Secret Woman; Islam: Return Journeys; Towards Dialogue?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.