Memory, Voice, and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East

Author:   Feroza Jussawalla ,  Doaa Omran
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367569792


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   26 September 2022
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Author:   Feroza Jussawalla ,  Doaa Omran
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367569792


ISBN 10:   0367569795
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   26 September 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Chapter 1: Memory of Latifa al-Zayyat between Influence and Ambivalence Magda Mansour Hasabelnaby Chapter 2: Rebuilding Baghdad: Placing Memoir in the Archive in Marina Benjamin’s Last Days in Babylon (2007) and Tamara Chalabi’s Late for Tea at the Deer Palace (2010) Arththi Sathananthar Chapter 3: Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem: Re-memory and the Storied Geography of Subalterns’ Telling of their S/Place Riham Debian Chapter 4: ""Don’t Get in my Face Like Ashiq Peri"": The Legacy of Azerbaijan’s most Famous Woman Bard Anna C. Oldfield Chapter 5: ""Exilic Consciousness"": Memoirs of Iranian Women Émigrés Feroza Jussawalla Chapter 6: Feminist Ethnography, Revisionary Historiography and the Subaltern in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade Naila Sahar Section 2: Body and Politics Chapter 7: Spheres of Piety: Politicization of Muslim Women in Turkish Novels Funda Güven Chapter 8: Muslim Face, White Mask: Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah’s Ramza as a Mimic (Wo)man Doaa Omran Chapter 9: Same-sex Relations in Modern Arabic Fiction between Empowerment and Impossibility: A case study of Samar Yazbek’s Cinnamon Rima Sadek Chapter 10: Writing Veiled Bodies Anew: A Study of Maya al-Haj’s Burkini: Iʿtirāfāt□Muḥajjaba. Asmaa Gamal Salem Awad Section 3: Identity and Crossing Boundaries Chapter 11: ""A Girl is Like a Bottle of Coke"": Emptied and Recycled Identities in Always Coca-Cola Lava Asaad Chapter 12: Shaping a Female Identity: Feminism & National Identity in Suad al-Sabah’s Poetry Asmaa Ahmed Youssef Moawad Chapter 13: ""An Islam of her Own"": A Critical Reading of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret Wafaa H. Sorour Chapter 14: Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Amel Abbady Section 4: Moving to Wider Spheres Chapter 15: An Intersectional Feminist Reading of The Dove’s Necklace and Hend and the Soldiers Najlaa R. Aldeeb Chapter 16: Language and Identity in Postcolonial Mauritanian Muslim Women’s Writing Fatima Sidiya Chapter 17: Documenting Refugee Crisis and Post-migration Living Difficulties in Ebtissam Shakoush’s In the Camps and Social Media Representations: A Postcolonial Perspective Heba Gaber Abd Elaziz Section 5: Returning to the Scheherazade Within Chapter 18: Djebar and Scheherazade: On Muslim Women, Past and Present Brigitte Stepanov Chapter 19: Cultural Trauma and Scheherazade’s Gastro-national/Transnational Discourse in Tamara al-Refai’s Writings Pervine Elrefaei Chapter 20: Revolutionizing Scheherazade: Deconstructing the Exotic and Oppressed Muslim Odalisque in Mohja Kahf’s Poetry Amany El-Sawy"

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"Feroza Jussawalla has taught at the University of Texas at El Paso and is Full Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. She is the author of Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1984), co-editor of Interviews with Writers of the Postcolonial World, (1992), and ed., Conversations with V.S. Naipaul (1997), and Emerging South Asian Women Writers (2017). Doaa Omran did her Master’s and PhD at the University of New Mexico (2019). She wrote her ground-breaking dissertation titled Female Hero Mega-Archetypes in the Medieval European Romance on Quranic and Biblical female characters as mega-archetypes in Medieval literature. She is currently a visiting lecturer at the same university where she received her Master’s and doctorate. She received her BA in English language and literature at Alexandria University, Egypt. Her awards include: a Fulbright Scholarship (2007), the Women of Color award at UNM (2012), Dean of Graduate Studies Dissertation Award (2016) and first place in the Larry Morris Memorial Scholarship (2018). Her essay ""Anachronism and Anatopism in the French Vulgate Cycle and the Forging of English Identity through Othering Muslims/Saracens"" is included in Albrecht Classen’s edited volume Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Explorations of World Perceptions and Processes of Identity Formation (2018)."

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