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Book SynopsisAn analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.
Trade Review"Innovative... This book is especially recommended for those interested in women's studies, Muslim studies, and comparative literature."--B. Harlow, University of Texas at Austin "Choice " ". . fills a lack in current studies of women's writing from and about the cultures that make up the Muslim world from Afghanistan to Morocco and is notable for the conversations it suggests among those who attend her "party with a hundred women." Journal of Middle East women's studies 10:3
Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Party with a Hundred Women; On Dialogue, Orientalism and Women's Writing Not Without My Daughter A Hundred Women A Note on Generalisation The Hundred-Woman Party Chapter One: Travellers' Tales: A Typology Forms of Writing Women Writing to Women The Political in the Apolitical Writing about Women's Writing Chapter Two: Author and Self Travelling with an Orientalist Writer Other Voices: Ghost Writers Other Voices: Women Walking in Lawrence's Footsteps Motivations Dangerous Words: Violence and Writing Celebrity and Its Discontents Talking Cure Self and Other Writing as a Woman Western Writing, Muslim Writing The Muslim Writer as Individual Chapter Three: The Politics of Time and Space: A Fractured Modernity A Note on Definitions: Modernity and the Modern Exploring the Past Old Futures, New Pasts Past, Present and Future A Fractured Modernity The Public, the Private and the Global On Jane Austen and the Goon Show Chapter Four: Voyages in Manistan: The Female Traveller and the Secret Woman The Orientalists' Secret Saadawi: the Epistemological Break The New East: the Turn to Horror Beyond the Horror: the Secret Dancing Watching the Western Women Secrecy and Dialogue Love as Dialogue Chapter Five: Islam: Return Journeys The Rise of Islam New Muslims Islam from the Inside Mecca Islam and Modernity Chapter Six: Towards Dialogue? From 9/11 to Reading Lolita Four Journeys on the Road to Dialogue Conclusion A Hundred Answers At the Crossroads Goodbye to Orientalism
