Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film

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Pub. Date: 2008-06-24
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation of postcolonial experience? Lindsey Moore'¬"s groundbreaking book demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to Orientalist/colonialist, nationalist, Islamist, and '¬Ümulticultural'¬" paradigms. She provides an accessible but theoretically-informed analysis by foregrounding tropes of vision, visibility and voice; post-nationalist melancholia and mother/daughter narratives; transformations of '¬Ühomes and harems'¬"; and border crossings in time, space, language, and media. In doing so, Moore moves beyond notions of speaking or looking '¬Üback'¬" to encompass a diverse feminist poetics and politics and to emphasize ethical forms of representation and reception. Aran, Muslim, Woman is distinctive in the eclectic body of work that it brings together. Discussing Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian territories, and Tunisia, as well as postcolonial Europe, Moore argues for better integration of Arab Muslim contexts in the postcolonial canon. In a book for readers interested in women's studies, history, literature, and visual media, we encounter work by Assia Djebar, Mona Hatoum, Fatima Mernissi, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Nawal el Saadawi, Leila Sebbar, Zineb Sedira, Ahdaf Soueif, Moufida Tlatli, Fadwa Tuqan, and many other women.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. ix
Note on transliterationp. x
List of platesp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Contexts of production and receptionp. 3
Voice and visionp. 12
Preliminary case study: Nawal el Saadawip. 17
Chapter outlinep. 23
Historical contexts: 'layer after layer'p. 25
Colonialism and orientalismp. 25
The Colonial Harem: reframed by Malek Alloulap. 33
Fanon's 'Algeria Unveiled' and Frantz Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiersp. 36
Early feminism: Huda Shaarawi's Harem Yearsp. 41
Postcolonial (neo-)patriarchies and feminismsp. 44
Visibility, vision, and voice: Algerian women in question (again)p. 48
Fettouma Touati, Desperate Springp. 49
Malika Mokeddem, The Forbidden Womanp. 51
Assia Djebar: from Children of the New World to A Sister to Scheherazadep. 5
'I am not an odalisque': Leila Sebbar's Sherazadep. 71
Delacroix revisited (once more): Houria Niati's No to Torturep. 75
Melancholia in the Maghrib: mother-daughter plotsp. 77
Leila Abouzeid, 'Year of the Elephant'p. 79
Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Memory in the Fleshp. 81
Moufida Tlatli, The Silences of the Palace and The Season of Menp. 85
A twist in the tale: Raja Amari, Red Satinp. 96
Beyond allegory?p. 97
Heterotopias: reimagining homep. 100
Nina Bouraoui, Forbidden Visionp. 102
Fadia Faqir, Pillars of Saltp. 105
Fadwa Tuqan, Mountainous Journeyp. 107
Raymonda Tawil, My Home, My Prisonp. 112
Fatima Mernissi, The Harem Withinp. 116
Farida Ben Lyazid, A Door to the Skyp. 124
Border crossings, translationsp. 128
Zineb Sedira: on witnessing, translatability, and vanishing pointsp. 130
Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distancep. 140
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Lovep. 146
Endnotesp. 159
Works citedp. 166
Filmographyp. 181
Indexp. 182
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