Women Claim Islam
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92553-2 (ISBN)
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This text presents the literature of contemporary Islamic feminist authors, and analyzes their strategies for self-definition and self-empowerment. Illustrating the tremendous strides that Arab women have made towards independence since the 1970s, it seeks to shatter prevailing stereotypes. It also provides an alternative feminist understanding of recent, significant events such as the Gulf War. Miriam Cooke brings to a wide audience a multitude of voices that need to be heard. She opens the floodgates on women's Islamic literature, featuring writers like Assia Djebar, Nawal El Saadawi, Fatima Mernissi, and Zaynab al-Ghazali.
Miriam Cooke is Professor and Director of Asian and African Languages and Literatures at Duke University. She is the author of Women and the War Story (1997) and Gendering War Talk (1993), and co-editor of Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (1990).
Introduction 1. Arab Women's Literary History: critical response; the Gulf War story; gendering the War Story; the Iraqi version; migrating stories; conclusion 2. In Search of Mother Tongues: Assia Djebar's prisonhouse; Albert Memmi's struggles with his mother; Abdelkebir Khatibi's bi-langue; Jacques Derrida: le petit juif francais d'Algerie; conclusion 3. Reviewing Beginnings: Islamic feminism; Assia Djebar; Fatima Mernissi; Nawal El Saadawi; conclusion 4. A Muslim Sister: Zaynab al-Ghazali's Muslim Ladies' Association; survival in hell; signs taken for wonders; an islamic feminist mission; conclusion 5. Multiple Critique: critical networking; imageness; the weight of the veil; conclusion 6. Changing the Subject. Conclusion. Cited Works
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.12.2000 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-92553-3 / 0415925533 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-92553-2 / 9780415925532 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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