gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels
- Categorieën
- Book/Boek
- Maker
- Majaj, Lisa Suhair > (ed.)
- Maker
- Sunderman, Paula W. > (ed.)
- Maker
- Saliba, Therese > (ed.)
- Medewerker
- Ghandour, Sabah
- Uitgave jaar
- 2002
- Vindplaats
- B3982 - B
- Samenvatting
- This collection brings together original essays by leading authorities in the field of nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. The essays focus on texts available in English translation and explore the relationship of these authors' texts to contemporary phenomena of feminism, nationalism, postcolonialism, war, transnationalism, and societal change. The writers focused upon are: Nawal El Saadawi, Salwa Bakr, Andrée Chedid, Sahar Khalifeh, Liana Badr, Hoda Barakat, Assia Djebar, Etel Adnan, Hanan al-Shaykh.
