Contemporary Arab women's life writing and the politics of resistance /

Explores the relationship between revolutionary movements and experimental life writing forms by contemporary Arab women.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheurfa, Hiyem (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Series:Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3464750
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Series Editor's Foreword
  • ­Introduction
  • ­Arab Women's Life Writing and Resistance Literature: History, Theory and Context
  • 1 Genre and Twentieth-­century National Struggles: Arab Women Write the Resistance
  • 2 A Bricolage of Genre, a Montage of Selves: Autobiographical Subjectivity, Generic Experimentation and Representational Contestation
  • 3 Shahādāt Nisāʼiyyah: Testimonial Life Writing, Accounts of Women's Resistance
  • 4 Dissident Laughter: Diaries of National Struggles and the Aesthetics of Humour
  • 5 Arab Women's Digital Life Writing: Resistance 2.0
  • ­Conclusion
  • ­Arab(ic) Resistance Non-­fiction: Critical Trajectories
  • Bibliography
  • Index