Arab, Muslim, woman; voice and vision in postcolonial literature and film.

9780415404167

Arab, Muslim, woman; voice and vision in postcolonial literature and film.

Moore, Lindsey.

Routledge

2008

189 pages

$140.00

Hardcover

Transformations

HQ1784

Moore (English, Lancaster U., UK) conducts readings of postcolonial feminist creative texts from a range of genres and media by Arab women from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. She focuses on the way the women foreground counter-hegemonic perspectives of Arab, Muslim, and female identity and also explores the ways they problematize their own acts of speaking and looking. The creators she examines include Huda Shaarawi, Fettouma Touati, Malika Mokeddem, Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar, Houria Niati, Leila Abouzeid, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Moufida Tlatli, Raja Amari, Nina Bouraoui, Fadia Faqir, Fadwa Tuqan, Raymonda Tawil, Fatima Mernissi, Farida Ben Lyazid, Zineb Sedira, Mona Hatoum,, and Ahdaf Soueif.

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