Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) - Hardcover

Majaj, Lisa Suhair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815629516 ISBN 13: 9780815629511

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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
societal change.

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About the Author

Lisa Suhair Majaj is an independent scholar and writer and coeditor of Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers and Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. Paula W. Sunderman is associate professor emerita of English at Mississippi State University and publishes in women's studies and in stylistics. Therese Saliba is on the faculty of Third World Feminist Studies at Evergreen State College, Washington, and is coeditor of Gender, Politics, and Islam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815629516
• ISBN 13: 9780815629511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240