This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt,
Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said's
groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the
West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little
postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos
raises the profile of Arab women writers by examining how they
negotiate contexts and experiences that have come to be identified
with postcoloniality such as the preoccupation with Western
feminism, political conflict and war, the social effects of
non-conformity and female empowerment, and the negotiation of
influential cultural discourses such as orientalism.
Contemporary Arab Women Writers revitalizes theoretical concepts
associated with feminism, gender studies and cultural studies, and
explores how art history, popular culture, translation studies,
psychoanalysis and news media all offer productive ways to
associate with Arab women's writing that work beyond a limiting
socio-historical context. Discussing the writings of authors
including Ahdaf Soueif, Nawal El Saadawi, Leila Sebbar, Liana Badr
and Hanan Al-Shaykh, this book represents a new direction in
postcolonial literary criticism that transcends constrictive
monothematic approaches.
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