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Series Information: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
This collection of essays concentrates on Arab-American writer and
artist Etel Adnan. Up until now, there has been no single volume
dedicated to her work despite Adnan's increasing recognition and
acclaim across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. The
essays fall into two sections. In the first, the essays respond to
the range of vision and experience in Adnan's writing and art
through analysis and appreciation. The second section focuses on
responses to and interpretations of Sitt Marie Rose, Adnan's well
known novel about the Lebanese war. As a whole, the writings in
this work seek to provide a comprehensive look at Adnan's literary
and artistic accomplishments through analysis and close readings
that place her texts within wider literary contexts.
"Geographies of Light" is a voice of the Palestinian people,
bearing witness to brutal loss, as well as the joy.
A true "intersection," of Arab women's texts that challenges and
rewrites the traditional boundaries of nation, gender, and
community.
This rigorously documented collection brings together for the
first time original essays by leading authorities in the field on
nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt,
Lebanon, and Palestine. The work focuses on texts available in
English translation and explores with great theoretical
sophistication the relationship of these authors' texts to
contemporary phenomena of feminism, nationalism, post-colonialism,
war, transnationalism, and societal changes.
The writers included here are descendants of multiple cultural
heritages and reflect the perspectives of various ethnic and
cultural backgrounds: Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Jordanian,
Lebanese, Libyan, Palestinian, Syrian. They are from diverse
socioeconomic classes and spiritual sensibilities: Jewish, Muslim,
Christian, and atheist, among others. Yet they coexist in this
volume as simply American voices. Atefat-Peckham gathered poetry
and prose from sixteen accomplished writers whose works concern a
variety of themes: from the familial cross-cultural
misunderstandings and conflicts in the works of Iranian American
writers Nahid Rachlin and Roger Sedarat to the mysticism of Khaled
Mattawa's poems; from the superstitions that govern characters in
Diana Abu-Jaber's prose to the devastating homesickness in Pauline
Kaldas's characters. Filled with emotion and keen observations,
this collection showcases these writers' vital contributions to
contemporary American literature.
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