Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing

Book Overview

Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. The collection goes well beyond dismantling standard notions of Arab female subservience, exploring the many ways Arab women writers have learned to speak to each other, to their readers, and to the world at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815631472
• ISBN13: 9780815631477
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"