Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
By Nawar Golley.
Description
This book examines late twentieth-century autobiographical writings by Arab women writers in their social, political, and rhetorical contexts, exploring the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created themselves within differing social environments. The profuse production of autobiographical works by Arab women throughout the twentieth century, and especially in the last two decades, as evidenced in this book, shows the increasing role and contribution of Arab women writers to autobiographical writings. However, the field of Arab women's autobiographical writings remains under-...
ISBN(s)
0815631227, 9780815631224
