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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsModernist Arab Women Writers: A Historical Overview, Salma Khadra Jayyusi; ""Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab Feminism in a Transnational World,"" Amal Amireh; ""Reenvisioning National Community in Salwa Bakr's The Golden Chariot,"" Magda al-Noweihi; ""The Sixth Day of Compassion: The Impossible Communities of Life Toward Death,"" Mary Layoun; ""Partitions and Precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian Political Geography,"" Barbara Harlow; ""A Country Beyond Reach: Liana Badr's Writings of the Palestinian Diaspora,"" Therese Saliba; ""Strategic Androgyny: Passing as Masculine in Barakat's Stone of Laughter,"" Mona Fayad; ""The Fourth Language: Subaltern Expression in Djebar's Fantasia,"" Nada Elia; ""Voice, Representation and Resistance: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose,"" Lisa Suhair Majaj; ""Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra: A Counter-Narrative and a Counter-History,"" Sabah Ghandour.
