Intersections - Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Womens Novels

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.

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 Reflections.

Paula W. Sunderman is associate professor emerita of English at Mississippi State University and author of Connections: Writing Across Disciplines. She has published numerous articles 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.

Summary

This collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Majaj, Lisa Suhair Majaj
• Assisted by: Lisa Majaj (Editor), Therese Saliba (Editor), Lisa Suhair Majaj (Editor), Lisa Suhair-Majaj (Editor), Paula W Sunderman (Editor), Paula W. Sunderman (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780815629764
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-2976-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 248 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education