Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance

Hiyem Cheurfa

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Hiyem Cheurfa, Larbi Tebessi University, Algeria

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: November 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781474489713

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory
Series:: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

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In the context of twenty-first century Arab uprisings, women invoke the complexity of their experiences as citizens, revolutionaries, women and writers through a range of narrative strategies. Autobiographical discourses that emerge as part of national revolutionary struggles make audible Arab women's voices and experiences, foregrounding women as active social and political agents and redefining conventions of self-representation and narration.

Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance examines contemporary Arab women's life writing as sites for the articulation of resistance to interlocking power structures and sociocultural and representational norms. Looking comparatively at subgenres of memoir, auto-portrait, testimony, diary and digital life writing across different linguistic and national contexts, this book explores why resistance is important when writing about the self for Arab women and how it is articulated through experimental formal and thematic approaches to the autobiographical genre.

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Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vii

Note on Transliteration and Translation
pp viii-viii

Series Editor’s Foreword
pp ix-xii

Introduction: Arab Women’s Life Writing and Resistance Literature: History, Theory and Context
pp 1-37

1 - Genre and Twentieth-century National Struggles: Arab Women Write the Resistance
pp 38-63

2 - A Bricolage of Genre, a Montage of Selves: Autobiographical Subjectivity, Generic Experimentation and Representational Contestation
pp 64-105

3 - Shahādāt Nisāʾiyyah: Testimonial Life Writing, Accounts of Women’s Resistance
pp 106-143

4 - Dissident Laughter: Diaries of National Struggles and the Aesthetics of Humour
pp 144-185

5 - Arab Women’s Digital Life Writing: Resistance 2.0
pp 186-224

Conclusion: Arab(ic) Resistance Non-fiction: Critical Trajectories
pp 225-235

Bibliography
pp 236-259

Index
pp 260-267

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