Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Hiyem Cheurfa, Algeria) Cheurfa, Hiyem (Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Comparative Studies in the Department of English, Larbi Tebessi University

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Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Hiyem Cheurfa examines twenty-first-century Arab women’s life writing as sites for the articulation of resistance to power structures and sociocultural and representational norms. Looking comparatively at subgenres of memoir, auto-portrait, testimony, diary, and digital life writing across different linguistic (Arabophone, Anglophone, and Francophone) and national contexts (Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Palestine, Tunisia), this book explores why resistance is important when writing about the self for Arab women.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-30
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor248
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474489690
UtmärkelserWinner of British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize 2024 (UK)

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AcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and TranslationSeries Editor’s ForewordIntroduction – Arab Women’s Life Writing and Resistance Literature: History, Theory and Context1 Genre and Twentieth-century National Struggles: Arab Women Write the Resistance2 A Bricolage of Genre, a Montage of Selves: Autobiographical Subjectivity, Generic Experimentation and Representational Contestation3 Shahādāt Nisāʾiyyah: Testimonial Life Writing, Accounts of Women’s Resistance4 Dissident Laughter: Diaries of National Struggles and the Aesthetics of Humour5 Arab Women’s Digital Life Writing: Resistance 2.0Conclusion – Arab(ic) Resistance Non-Fiction: Critical TrajectoriesBibliography Index

By examining Arabophone, Francophone, and Anglophone autobiographical writings of Arab women found in various modes, including testimonials, diaries, and more recently in digital media, Cheurfa’s book, well-grounded in related theories, contributes to the analysis of dissident literature showing the strong involvement of Arab women in national struggle movements and redefining the modern cultural history of the Arab world.