Description: Anxiety of Erasure : Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings, Paperback by Al-samman, Hanadi, ISBN 0815636628, ISBN-13 9780815636625, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab womens repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the mawudah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland.
Al-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of six prominent authors whose works span over half a century and define the current status of Arab diaspora studiesGhada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Nana, Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi. Exploring the journeys in time and space undertaken by these women, Anxiety of Erasure shines a light on the ways in which writers remain participants in their homelands intellectual lives, asserting both the traumatic and the triumphant aspects of diaspora. The result is a nuanced Arab womens poetic that celebrates rootlessness and rootedness, autonomy and belonging.
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Book Title: Anxiety of Erasure : Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: Anxiety of Erasure : Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings
Language: English
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Middle Eastern, Women's Studies, Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd)
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 15.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Hanadi Al-Samman
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
