Arab Women's Lives Retold.Arab Women's Lives Retold re·told v. Past tense and past participle of retell. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, editor Syracuse University Press Syracuse University Press, founded in 1943, is a university press that is part of Syracuse University. External link
1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 9780815631477, $22.95 www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu 1-800-365-8929 Edited by Associate Professor of English Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing is an anthology of literary essays by diverse authors that examine a broad selection of late twentieth-century autobiographical writings by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists. Sample discussions include "Arab Women Write the Trauma of Imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. and Exile", "To Undo What the North Has Done: Fragments of a Nation and Arab Collectivism in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif", "Yasmina, an Autodiegetic Character: Herstory her·sto·ry n. pl. her·sto·ries 1. History considered from a feminist viewpoint or emphasizing the actions of women. 2. and History", and much more. An extensive list of references and an index round out this welcome contribution to twentieth-century literary criticism shelves. |
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