Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
Contents:
Introduction, Art, autobiography, and the maternal abject / Mireille Astore. Passage through the harem : historicizing a western obsession in Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage : from Cairo to America-- a Woman's Journey / Bernadette Andrea -- Dismembering the gaze : speleology and vivisection in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia / Karina Eileraas -- Yasmina, an autodiegetic character : herstory and history / Benaouda Lebdai -- Poetic geographies : interracial insurgency in Arab American autobiographical spaces / Keith Feldman -- Postnational ethics, postcolonial politics : Raimonda Tawil's My Home, My Prison / Jamil Khader -- Muslim woman writes back : Leila Abouzeid's Return to Childhood : the Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman / Pauline Homsi Vinson -- Voices across the frontier : Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass : Tales of a Harem Girlhood / Filiz Turhan-Swenson -- To undo what the North has done : fragments of a nation and Arab collectivism in the fiction of Ahdaf Soueif / Mrinalini Chakravorty -- Weaving poetic autobiographies : individual and communal identities in the poetry of Mohja Kahf and Suheir Hammad / Carol Fadda-Conrey -- Arab women write the trauma of imprisonment and exile / Daphne M. Grace -- Journey of belonging : a global(ized) self finds peace / Nawar Al-Hassan Golley and Ahmad Al-Issa -- Art, autobiography, and the maternal abject / Mireille Astore.
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