Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context

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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Women, not heroines or icons of modernity Beginnings Arab Feminism Western cultural exports in Arab social thought Feminist postcolonial theory and Arab representation 2 Again: Nawal El Saadawi From medicine to politics to fiction El Saadawi's avowals Early novels And they die of desire for us 3 Danger and Creativity: Lebanese war novelists War stories How to write war? Hanan Al-Shaykh: what's love got to do with it? Survival or bust: Al-Shaykh's Beirut Blues and Ghoussoub's Leaving Beirut: Women and the Wars Within Concerned outsiders: what do they care? Bride martyrs and servant heroines 4 The Garnet years: translations Translation and rewriting Pain, suffering and ideology: The 'Palestinian' Novels 'There are crimes of conscience which human laws fail to rectify': Bakr's The Golden Chariot Mothballs or Napthalene? 5 Ahlam Mosteghanemi and Ahdaf Soueif: 'physical textures' and 'exceptional events' I love you Algeria: Mosteghanemi's Memory in t

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