Contemporary Arab Women Writers
Cultural Expression in Context
Price: $120.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-35355-7
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 17th October 2007
- Pages: 192
About the Book
This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos raises the profile of Arab women writers by examining how they negotiate contexts and experiences that have come to be identified with postcoloniality such as the preoccupation with Western feminism, political conflict and war, the social effects of non-conformity and female empowerment, and the negotiation of influential cultural discourses such as orientalism.
Contemporary Arab Women Writers revitalizes theoretical concepts associated with feminism, gender studies and cultural studies, and explores how art history, popular culture, translation studies, psychoanalysis and news media all offer productive ways to associate with Arab women’s writing that work beyond a limiting socio-historical context. Discussing the writings of authors including Ahdaf Soueif, Nawal El Saadawi, Leila Sebbar, Liana Badr and Hanan Al-Shaykh, this book represents a new direction in postcolonial literary criticism that transcends constrictive monothematic approaches.
About the Author(s)
Anastasia Valassopoulos lectures on World Literatures at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of articles on Arab women writers, Tunisian film, Egyptian and Algerian popular culture, and has also written on the Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi.
Customers who bought Contemporary Arab Women Writers also bought:
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is a book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Mandarin Chinese.
Divided into two sections, the Workbook initially...
more information about Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook
Developing Writing Skills in Chinese
Developing Writing Skills in Chinese has been devised for post-intermediate students who need to write Chinese in the course of their life, work or study.
Suitable...
Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation
This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics. It begins with the idea that we often respond to ethical theories according to how principled...