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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819936803321

Autore

Al-Samman Hanadi

Titolo

Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / / Hanadi Al-Samman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8156-5329-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East

Disciplina

892.7/099287

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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.