Contemporary Arab Women Writers

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Contemporary Arab Women Writers

Contemporary Arab Women Writers
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9781134260867
ISBN-13 : 1134260865
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Arab Women Writers by : Anastasia Valassopoulos

Download or read book Contemporary Arab Women Writers written by Anastasia Valassopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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