| Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Womens Novels Contributor(s): Suhair Majaj, Lisa (Editor), Sunderman, Paula W. (Editor), Saliba, Therese (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815629761 ISBN-13: 9780815629764 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: A true "intersection," of Arab women's texts that challenges and rewrites the traditional boundaries of nation, gender, and community. This rigorously documented collection brings together for the first time original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. The work focuses on texts available in English translation and explores with great theoretical sophistication the relationship of these authors' texts to contemporary phenomena of feminism, nationalism, post-colonialism, war, transnationalism, and societal changes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 892.730 |
| LCCN: 2002011956 |
| Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.42" W x 9.76" (0.95 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This rigorously documented collection brings together for the first time original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. The essays focus on texts available in English translation and explore with great theoretical sophistication the relationship of these authors' texts to contemporary phenomena of feminism, nationalism, postcolonialism, war, transnationalism, and |