Nawar Al-Hassan Golley's Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her PDF

By Nawar Al-Hassan Golley

ISBN-10: 0292705441

ISBN-13: 9780292705449

ISBN-10: 029270545X

ISBN-13: 9780292705456

Authors of autobiographies are continuously engaged in making a "self" to provide to their readers. This technique of self-creation increases a couple of exciting questions: why and the way does an individual decide to current herself or himself in an autobiography? Do men and women symbolize themselves in numerous methods and, if that is so, why? How do adjustments in tradition impact the writing of autobiography in a number of elements of the world?

This publication tackles those questions via a detailed exam of Arab women's autobiographical writings. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley applies a number of western severe theories, together with Marxism, colonial discourse, feminism, and narrative concept, to the autobiographies of Huda Shaarawi, Fadwa Tuqan, Nawal el-Saadawi, and others to illustrate what those serious methodologies can show approximately Arab women's writing. even as, she additionally interrogates those theories opposed to the selected texts to work out how sufficient or acceptable those versions are for examining texts from different cultures. This two-fold research sheds vital new gentle on how the writers or editors of Arab women's autobiographies have written, documented, awarded, and arranged their texts.

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