Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and
techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual
artists foreground in their presentation of postcolonial
experience? Lindsey Moore's groundbreaking book demonstrates ways
in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of
representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to
Orientalist/colonialist, nationalist, Islamist, and 'multicultural'
paradigms. She provides an accessible but theoretically-informed
analysis by foregrounding tropes of vision, visibility and voice;
post-nationalist melancholia and mother/daughter narratives;
transformations of 'homes and harems'; and border crossings in
time, space, language, and media. In doing so, Moore moves beyond
notions of speaking or looking 'back' to encompass a diverse
feminist poetics and politics and to emphasize ethical forms of
representation and reception. Aran, Muslim, Woman is distinctive in
the eclectic body of work that it brings together. Discussing
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian
territories, and Tunisia, as well as postcolonial Europe, Moore
argues for better integration of Arab Muslim contexts in the
postcolonial canon. In a book for readers interested in women's
studies, history, literature, and visual media, we encounter work
by Assia Djebar, Mona Hatoum, Fatima Mernissi, Ahlam Mosteghanemi,
Nawal el Saadawi, Leila Sebbar, Zineb Sedira, Ahdaf Soueif, Moufida
Tlatli, Fadwa Tuqan, and many other women.
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