Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / / Hanadi Al-Samman
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 892.7/099287 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Anxiety of erasure |
| ISBN: | 0-8156-5329-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797839903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East