Title:
Reading Arab women's autobiographies : Shahrazad tells her story / Nawar Al-Hassan Golley.
Author:
Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan, 1961- author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical refrences and index.
Political theory : colonial discourse, feminist theory, and Arab feminism -- Why colonial discourse? -- Feminism, nationalism, and colonialism in the Arab world -- Huda Shaarawi's Harem years : the memoirs of an Egyptian feminist -- Narrative theory : autobiography -- Autobiography and sexual difference -- Arab autobiography : a historical survey -- Analysis of texts -- Anthologies -- Fadwa Tuqan's Mountainous journey, difficult journey -- Nawal el-Saadawi -- The literary and the political.
Publisher:
University of Texas Press,
Publication Place:
Austin, Tex. :
ISBN:
9780292705456
029270545X
Subject:
Women -- Arab countries -- Biography.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Feminists -- Arab countries -- Biography.
Feminists -- Egypt -- Biography.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Political theory : colonial discourse, feminist theory, and Arab feminism -- Why colonial discourse? -- Feminism, nationalism, and colonialism in the Arab world -- Huda Shaarawi's Harem years : the memoirs of an Egyptian feminist -- Narrative theory : autobiography -- Autobiography and sexual difference -- Arab autobiography : a historical survey -- Analysis of texts -- Anthologies -- Fadwa Tuqan's Mountainous journey, difficult journey -- Nawal el-Saadawi -- The literary and the political.
Physical Description:
xv, 236 pages ;
Publication Date:
2003.
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