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Feminist Gothic, Critical Irrealism and Arab Women's World-Literature - 'Living with Ghosts'

English · Hardback

Will be released 25.09.2025

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This book moves the field of study of Arab women s writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the bravery that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers innovate and utilise Gothic forms to live with the ghosts of foremothers, who represent lost knowledges about violence and feminised heritage. Examining contemporary Arab women s writing from the 1970s to the present through the lens of world-literary systems and feminist theory, this book details aesthetic patterns between decades, nations, and authors. The works of canonical Arab feminist authors such as Nawal El Saadawi and Hanan Al-Shaykh are put in conversation with those of contemporary authors such as Adania Shibli, Joumana Haddad, and Mansoura Ez Eldin. These works are linked through their creative feminist theorisations of loss and living.
 

List of contents

Chapter 1.- Mosaics and Ink Blots Gothic mothers in Arab women s writing.- Chapter 2.- The Supernatural.- Chapter 3.- Madness in the hall of mirrors.- Chapter 4.- Time and Causal Collapse.- Chapter 5.- Dislocated Spaces.

Summary

This book moves the field of study of Arab women’s writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the “bravery” that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers innovate and utilise Gothic forms to “live with the ghosts” of foremothers, who represent lost knowledges about violence and feminised heritage. Examining contemporary Arab women’s writing from the 1970s to the present through the lens of world-literary systems and feminist theory, this book details aesthetic patterns between decades, nations, and authors. The works of canonical Arab feminist authors such as Nawal El Saadawi and Hanan Al-Shaykh are put in conversation with those of contemporary authors such as Adania Shibli, Joumana Haddad, and Mansoura Ez Eldin. These works are linked through their creative feminist theorisations of loss and living.
 

Product details

Authors Roxanne Douglas
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 25.09.2025
 
EAN 9783031943195
ISBN 978-3-0-3194319-5
No. of pages 236
Illustrations XI, 236 p.
Series New Comparisons in World Literature
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

Literaturtheorie, Naher Osten, World Literature, Feminist Theory, Middle Eastern Literature, Gothic Studies, Feminist Literary Theory, Literature and Cultural Studies, Arab Women's Writing

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