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Book SynopsisThis book tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women, whether in fact or as possibility, and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Straddling the divide between fiction and scholarship, it combines fictional narrative, contemplation, theoretical thinking, scholarly discussions, and interviews.
Trade Review"This is a spectacular volume, breaking new ground in the construction of form as well as in feminist storytelling and analysis. Based on interviews, research, and fictionalization, it is neither journalism, nor scholarly tract, nor fiction, but a combination of all three that is something larger still. . . . This book is a work of art." -- Ellen G. Friedman * The College of New Jersey *
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Maps is a study of the production of knowledge with a daring narrative vision. An intricate weave of spellbinding stories, it is an aural work: through the sound of the embodied voices of the author and her interview subjects the text comes to life and realizes its full power. By exploring novel reading practices that engage the performative possibilities inherent in this work, readers will discover
Maps' sensuousness and subtle brilliance." --
The Women's Review of Books"Mazali, who some of us know as a relentless peace activist and co-founder of "New Profile," the Movement for the Civil-ization of Israeli society, and whose emails many of us have been reading during the 2001-2002
Intifada as she remains unflinching in her convictions regarding draft refusal and just peace, describes herself laconically on the back cover as an "Israeli writer." However, much more than merely "a writer," or merely a "peace activist," even more than the courageous, subversive critic of the Israeli war machine, Mazali, as becomes obvious from this book, is a leading feminist scholar." -- Ronit Lentin * Journal of Israeli History *
"What is strikingly original about
Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings is its integration of fiction, scholarly research, and ethnographic interviewing." * Review of Contemporary Fiction *
Table of Contents1. The house and the longing 2. Janie's room with Zinnia 3. Storytails 4. The princess in the caravan 5. The princess in the caravan too 6. The Indian in the longing 7. The mountains and the hills and the toilet 8. Fearledge 9. Bookmaps and housebooks 10. Balls, bats and cars 11. The sea and the desert 12. Gibraltar.
