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...
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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-con
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; Introduction; 1 Women, not heroines or icons of modernity1; 2 Again Nawal: El Saadawi; 3 Danger and creativity: Lebanese war novelists; 4 The Garnet series: Translations; 5 Ahlam Mosteghanemi and Ahdaf Soueif: 'Physical textures' and 'exceptional events'; 6 Re-exoticising the Orient; Notes; Index