a critical reference guide, 1873-1999
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ashour, Radwa > [ed]
- Creator
- Ghazoul, Ferial > [ed]
- Creator
- Reda-mekdashi, Hasna > [ed]
- Contributor
- al-Sager, Hatem M.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- B 054 2008 AFR
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, schrijvers, Arabische wereld, Libanon, Syrië, Soedan, Irak, Palestina, Jordanië, Arabisch Schiereiland, Noord-Afrika, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, opstel, bibliografie, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book is a reference source and review of Arab women writers from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This study looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics and writers from the Arab world examine the origin and evolution of women's writing in each country in the region, addressing fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographical writing.The second part of the volume contains bibliographical entries for over 1,200 Arab women writers from the last third of the nineteenth century through 1999. Each entry contains a short biography and a bibliography of each author's published works. This section also includes Arab women's writing in French and English, as well as a bibliography of works translated into English.