Arab Women''s Lives Retold - Exploring Identity Through Writing

Informationen zum Autor Nawar Al-Hassan Golley is associate professor of literary and critical theory and women's studies in the Department of English at the American University of Sharjah. She is the author of the pioneering book Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story. Klappentext Examining late 20th-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this work explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. It explores the many routes Arab women writers have taken to speak to each other, to their readers, and to the world. Zusammenfassung Examining late 20th-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists! poets! and artists! this work explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. It explores the many routes Arab women writers have taken to speak to each other! to their readers! and to the world.

Product details

• Authors: Nawar Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan (EDT) Golley
• Assisted by: Nawar Al-Hassan Golley (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2007
• EAN: 9780815631477
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3147-7
• No. of pages: 271
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries