Name: Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings
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Author: Al-Samman, Hanadi
ISBN: 9780815636625

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Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hanadi Al-Samman

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Language

English

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.7 x 13.7 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780815636625

Synopsis "Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings"

Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw'udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland. Al-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of six prominent authors whose works span over half a century and define the current status of Arab diaspora studies--Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Na'na', Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi. Exploring the journeys in time and space undertaken by these women, Anxiety of Erasure shines a light on the ways in which writers remain participants in their homelands' intellectual lives, asserting both the traumatic and the triumphant aspects of diaspora. The result is a nuanced Arab women's poetic that celebrates rootlessness and rootedness, autonomy and belonging.

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