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The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critical and alternative imaginary of war and displacement in their literary production. Their voices underscore the capacity of the literary arts to project, critique, and complicate what has happened and what is still happening to women in these sites of violation because of war and continuing political instability, unchecked sexual trauma, health politics, and other insecurities. Emerging from a situation of urgency, The Wounds of War makes a much-needed postcolonial feminist literary and cultural intervention in traditional narratives of war and anti-war protest by filling the glaring gaps and omissions embedded in the MENA region's

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Author:   Brinda J. Mehta (Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Mills College, Northeastern University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9780197815199

ISBN 10:   0197815197
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   29 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings 1: Staging Protest in Fatima Bourega-Gallaire's La beauté de l'icône (The Icon's Beauty) and Myriam Ben's Leïla 2: Fragile Bodies and Resilient Minds: The War Traumas of Children in Racha Mounaged's La Blessure (The Wound) and Samar Yazbek's Al-Masha'a (Planet of Clay) 3: The Feminist War Against Cancer in Evelyne Accad's The Wounded Breast, Betool Khedairi's Gayab (Absent), and Abir Hamdar's Wasaful al-sabr (""I Am Waiting for You"") 4: Contesting Illegality in Suad Amiry's ""Border Diary"" Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey with Murad 5: Redefining the War ArchiveTied Circles, Birdsong, and War Fragments in Dunya Mikhail's The War Works Hard and In Her Feminine Sign 6: The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri's Elle va nue la liberté (Freedom's Naked March) 7: Testimonials of Pain in Yemen's Forgotten WarBushra Al-Maqtari's What Have You Left Behind? Afterword: Final Reflections on War

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Brinda J. Mehta is the Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the award-winning author of five books on postcolonial women writers and creative resistance from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East, numerous articles on postcolonial feminist literature, and three co-edited journal issues. Her areas of specialization include postcolonial literature, transnational feminist thought, cultural studies, diaspora and migration studies.

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