| Description |
xxv, 428 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The women writing Africa project ; v. 4
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Women writing Africa project ; v. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-423) and index. |
| Contents |
The Ancients: fifteenth century BCE to fourth century CE. My falcon rises high / Hatshepsut ; A Proposal of marriage / Ankhesen-pa-Atun ; Love songs / Anonymous ; Lament of Isis and Nephthys / Anonymous ; A complaint / Philista, daughter of Lysias ; Request for a guardian / Nikaia, daughter of Nikias ; About a little girl / Apollonous ; Letter to a brother / Ptolema ; I am a Christian / Saint Vivia Perpetua ; A mother seeks legal independence / Aurelia Thaisous ; To the memory of Aelia Secundula / Statulenia Julia ; Let women not be misled / Saint Syncletica -- Islam: seventh century to eighteenth century. A letter to a woman friend / Om Makina ; A plea for money / Anonymous ; Two Tunisian poems / Mahriyya Al-Aghlabiya and Khadija Ben Kalthoum ; Freeing a slave woman / Astour Heyoh ; Using the right of severance / Sara, daughter of Abboud Al-Nahid ; Love poems / Hafsa Bint Al-Haj Al-Rakuniya ; Consolation and other poems / Fatma-Setita ; Escaping the Inquisition / Ana de Melo ; Two political letters / Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar ; A letter about female slaves / Lalla Fatima ; Struggle for a throne / Shehrazad -- Nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Laʼrubiyat, or Women's songs / Anonymous ; Poem to my daughter / Aisha Al-Taymouria ; Aissa the Fox / Kharboucha ; The Eastern woman: how she is and how she should be / Labiba Hashim ; The choice of a husband / Zeinab Fawwaz ; Polygamy / Malak Hifni Nassef ; Resistance / Tawgrat Walt Aissa NʼAyt Sokhman ; Letter from exile / Saphia Zagloul ; Response to Reactionaries / Helmeya Yousry, pseud. ; Women's rights / Mounira Thabet ; Two defiant poems / Mririda NʼAyt Atiq ; Visiting a dead mother / Blanche Bendahan ; Higher education for women / Asma Fahmy ; On young women's education / Al-Fatat, pseud. ; A furious woman / Soheir El-Qalamawi ; The lost hope / Nahed Taha Abdel Ber ; Yes to education and no to marriage / Nabaweya Moussa ; Honoring Dr. Tawhida Ben Cheikh / Bchira Ben Mrad -- Mid-twentieth century. Letter to a friend / Badyʼa Sabbah-Allah ; An important step for girls' education / Malika El-Fassi ; Should women enter Al-Azhar? / Fatma Neʼmat Rashed ; Letter to the Prime Minister / Huda Shaarawi ; A princess speaks, unveiled / Lalla Aisha ; The best type of publicity / Doria Shafik ; An opening speech / Habiba Guessousa ; Tales from the Zogheb saga / Eugenie Sinano Horwitz ; Women's emancipation / Alia Khsasiya ; The heiress / Aisha Abdel Rahman ; To Lalla Radia, our eternal lighthouse / Zhor Lhiyania ... [et al.] ; Alienation / Djamila Débêche ; Removal of the veil and decency / Fatima Kabbaj ; Sentenced to death / Baya Hocine ; There is no exile / Assia Djebar ; Testimony of torture / Djamila Boupacha ; Two prison poems / Zhor Zerari ; I no longer love passionately / Galila Reda ; Aunt Noor / Wadida Wassef ; Outcast and exile / Fadhma Ait Mansour Amrouche -- Late twentieth century. Come back in two weeks / Khnata Bennani ; I want to tell you / Rabha Moha ; Two poems: Prison and the prostitutes / Saida Menebhi ; Torture in prison / Zainab Al-Ghazali ; The rose / Amina Wahib ; On prostitution / Aicha Mekki ; Fatima and the ogress / El-Hajja Rqia ; Wake up, sisters / Fatima Tabaamrant ; Women and political Islam / Fatima Mernissi ; The gramophone / Amina Arfaoui ; Mother goat: a folk tale / Samira Tolba Abdel Tawab ; Worms in the rose garden / Salwa Bakr ; Take my bracelet and other songs / Communal ; One million signatures / Latifa Jbabdi and L'Union de L'Action Féminine ; Thorny spaces suddenly moving / Fatma Kandil ; In her own mirror / Latifa Al-Zayyat ; Writing and freedom / Nawal El Saadawi ; An artist who unsettles: an interview and a song / Malouma Bint Moktar Ould Meidah ; Defiances: an interview and a poem / Mubaraka Bint Al-Barra ; Accused of heresy / Radwa Ashour ; Why was my son assassinated? / Naima Boucharef ; Breaking silence / Moufida Tlati ; Why some women write poetry / Tassadit Yacine and Nouara ; Rites / Buthayna Khadr Mekky ; Who is Fathia el Assal / Fathia el Assal ; The magic journey / Samira El Ghaly El Hajj ; Framed women / Huda Lutfi ; Lullaby to a daughter / Fatma Ramadan -- The new century. Two stories of a house / Leila Abouzeid ; Gamalek: the master of all birds / Tafidah Mahmoud Abdel Aghany ; Love and militancy: oral testimonies / Safia Oraho ; Two slaves, mother and daughter / Maria Bent Itto Brahim ; Songs of separation and union / Rabea Qadiri ; Two feisty tales / Lalla Mina Lamrani ; The call of Hagar / Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani ; So as not to forget the dreams of Qasim Amin / Ekbal Baraka ; O bride: Berber wedding song / Hadda NʼAyt Hssain ; Love is like water / Samia Serageldin ; Gifts of time / Faiza W. Shereen ; Duo / Azza Filali ; Progress for women is progress for all / Nouzha Skalli-Bennis ; The flower of all earthly creatures / Communal (Lalla Fatima) ; A Jewish Moroccan childhood / Yaëlle Azagury ; Girls' honor and intellectuals' shame / Mona Abousenna ; Rights of political representation / Mona Makram-Ebeid ; From this day forth, I will carry my mother's name / Mona Nawal Helmi. |
| Summary |
"Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region includes over 100 texts in nine different languages from six countries - Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia. Drawing on oral written sources, the entries span several millennia and range from an ancient Egyptian Queen's marriage proposal to modern women advocating new marriage and family laws. Writers such as Leila Abou Zeid, Amina Arfaoui, Salwa Bakr, Assia Djebar, Nawal El Saadawi, and Fatima Mernissi explore love, marriage, polygamy, the veil, the struggle for nationhood, and the right to employment."--Book cover. |
| Subject |
North African literature -- History.
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North African literature. |
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History. |
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North African literature -- Women authors -- Translations into English.
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Women authors. |
| Added Author |
Sadiqi, Fatima.
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| Added Title |
Northern region |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Women writing Africa. New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2009 (OCoLC)649148340 |
| ISBN |
9781558615892 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781558615885 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1558615881 hardcover alkaline paper |
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155861589X paperback alkaline paper |
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