Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings

by Hanadi Al-Samman

Book Overview

Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's 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 maw'udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815636628
• ISBN13: 9780815636625
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.9"