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Author Al-Samman, Hanadi.

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

Publication Info. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2015.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
Contents 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.
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Subject Arabic literature -- America -- History and criticism.
Arabic literature.
America.
Arabic literature -- Europe -- History and criticism.
Europe.
Arabic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Arabic literature -- Women authors.
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic -- History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction, Arabic.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Culture in literature.
Culture in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9780815634027 0815634021 (DLC) 2015035801 (OCoLC)910530483
ISBN 9780815653295 (electronic book)
0815653298 (electronic book)
9780815634027 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0815634021 (cloth ; alkaline paper)