Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

The Search for Dialogue, 1920 - Present

Author(s) Sharif Gemie

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism

  • November 2012 · 224 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9780708325391
  • · Paperback - 9780708325407
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708325414
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783165414

About The Book

An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.

Endorsements

"Innovative... This book is especially recommended for those interested in women's studies, Muslim studies, and comparative literature."--B. Harlow, University of Texas at Austin "Choice "

Contents

Introduction: A Party with a Hundred Women; On Dialogue, Orientalism and Women's Writing Not Without My Daughter A Hundred Women A Note on Generalisation The Hundred-Woman Party Chapter One: Travellers' Tales: A Typology Forms of Writing Women Writing to Women The Political in the Apolitical Writing about Women's Writing Chapter Two: Author and Self Travelling with an Orientalist Writer Other Voices: Ghost Writers Other Voices: Women Walking in Lawrence's Footsteps Motivations Dangerous Words: Violence and Writing Celebrity and Its Discontents Talking Cure Self and Other Writing as a Woman Western Writing, Muslim Writing The Muslim Writer as Individual Chapter Three: The Politics of Time and Space: A Fractured Modernity A Note on Definitions: Modernity and the Modern Exploring the Past Old Futures, New Pasts Past, Present and Future A Fractured Modernity The Public, the Private and the Global On Jane Austen and the Goon Show Chapter Four: Voyages in Manistan: The Female Traveller and the Secret Woman The Orientalists' Secret Saadawi: the Epistemological Break The New East: the Turn to Horror Beyond the Horror: the Secret Dancing Watching the Western Women Secrecy and Dialogue Love as Dialogue Chapter Five: Islam: Return Journeys The Rise of Islam New Muslims Islam from the Inside Mecca Islam and Modernity Chapter Six: Towards Dialogue? From 9/11 to Reading Lolita Four Journeys on the Road to Dialogue Conclusion A Hundred Answers At the Crossroads Goodbye to Orientalism

About the Author(s)

Author(s): Sharif Gemie

Sharif Gemie is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of South Wales, and External Examiner for History at the University of Lancaster.

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