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



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Autore: Al-Samman Hanadi Visualizza persona
Titolo: Anxiety of erasure : trauma, authorship, and the diaspora in Arab women's writings / / Hanadi Al-Samman Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8156-5329-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819936803321
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Serie: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East