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This book focuses on the premise that contemporary postcolonial women writers
reclaim a new position of writing which mirrors and transcends the storytelling
of Shahrazad in terms of theme and structure. It questions the extent to which
Shahrazad is employed as a liberating figure in contemporary postcolonial women's
narratives. Postcolonial feminine writing allows temporary interventions into the
patriarchal and colonial discourses. The repetition of these temporary interventions
suggests the possibility of more subversive and liberating literary discourses.
List of contents
Postcolonial Feminine Writing - Re-writing the Postcolonial - Re- writing the Storyteller: al- Shaykh's One Thousand and One Nights (2011) - 'A Unique World of Spectacle': Re- formulating the Gaze in Shafak's The Gaze (2006) - Silences and Shames in Shafak's Honour (2012) - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index
About the author
Mine Sevinç holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Surrey, UK. She
teaches and researches in the areas of postcolonial women's writing, gender theories,
theories of the gaze and Shahrazad's re-narratives in contemporary postcolonial
fiction.
