Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Malek, Ghadeer, 1985-
2. Moussa, Ghaida

Description

1. xiv, 296 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space, and Resistance is an anthology that cradles the thoughts of Arab feminists, articulated through personal critical narratives, academic essays, poetry, short stories, and visual art. It is a meeting space where discussions on home(land), exile, feminism, borders, gender and sexual identity, solidarity, language, creative resistance, and (de)colonization are shared, confronted, and subverted. In a world that has increasingly found monolithic and one-dimensional ways of representing Arab womyn, this anthology comes as an alternate space in which we connect on the basis of our shared identities, despite physical, theoretical, and metaphorical distances, to celebrate our multiple voices, honour our ancestry, and build community on our own terms, and in our own voices."--Pub. desc.

Subject

1. English literature -- Women authors.
2. English literature -- Arab authors.
3. Women, Arab -- Literary collections.
4. Women, Arab -- Social conditions -- Literary collections.
5. Women authors, Arab -- Literary collections.
6. Arabs -- Ethnic identity -- Literary collections.
7. Feminism -- Literary collections.

Genre/Form

1. Literary collections
2. Literature

Contents

1. Starting Points / Ghaida Moussa. Hesitations / Ghadeer Malek. Through the Fog / Ghadeer Malek. Pieces / Amal El-Mohtar. Abu Samir's Pigeons, Khalil, Palestine / Laila Suidan. spines from the prickly pears / Laila Suidan. Girls As Women / Maha Zimmo. Mother-Daughter Relationships in Canadian and Arab Women's Literature / Afaf Jamil Khogeer. London by Self Tour / Dina El Dessouky. Je suis ma grand-mère -- I am my grandmother / Laila Ait Bouchtba. A Feminist Regeneration / Nawar Al-Hassan Golley. Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage: From Cairo to America- A Woman's Journey: An Ambulant Voice Restructuring Borders Between Difference and Similitude / Abdelmajid Ridouane. Living in Sin / Laylan Saadaldin. Electricity and Palestinian Virgins / Amal Eqeiq Mama's Hands / Salam Jeghbir. Stories I have (been) told / Nehal El-Hadi. Breathing Borders / Ghaida Moussa. Prohibited / Laila Ait Bouchtba. Song for an Ancient City / Amal El-Mohtar. Polymorphous Revolution and Naked Bodies: A New Expression of Dissidence in Egypt / Jacinthe A. Assaad. Hyperreal Matriarchies in Raja Alem's The Doves' Necklace / Maha Sallam. city slashed my heart so I slashed this poem / Nehal El-Hadi. Trajectories of Crossings / Nayrouz Abu Hatoum. Departing a City / Rauda Morcos. Ain't I a Palestinian Woman? Artistic Bodies Finding Home at the Borders / Shahd Wadi. Reconstructing Hudud: Using Stereotypes in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood /Christine Rezk. A Childhood Photograph / Maha Zimmo. My Elders / Salam Jeghbir. Liberation from Within / Ghadeer Malek and Ghaida Moussa. The Apple and the Snake Peel / Rawia Sabella. "Aat" and the apple peel / Lana Nasser. I Resist / Inaam. A Voice from Aswat / Samira Saraya. Hidden Voice: Women's Writing as a Question of Feminism / Miral al-Tahawy. Re-locating the Feminine: Moroccan Women's Writings / Hassan Zrizi. My Colonized Tongue / Ghaida Mous.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Additional formats (note)

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain