Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and FilmRoutledge, 14/05/2008 - 208 من الصفحات 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 ‘multicultural’ 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 ‘homes and harems’; and border crossings in time, space, language, and media. In doing so, Moore moves beyond notions of speaking or looking ‘back’ 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. |
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... indebtedto Claudia Esposito and Anastasia Valassopoulos for providing incisive commentary onthe whole manuscript.It goeswithout sayingthatany remaining errorsare my own. Part of Chapter 1 appears as 'The Veil A c k n o w l e d g ...
... Valassopoulos 2007) in focusing upon a range of postcolonial feminist creative texts by women affiliated to Maghrib, Mashriq, 1 and otherArab Muslimcontexts. 2 Withreference toaneclectic body ofwork produced between 1962 and2005, I ...
... Valassopoulos 2007: ch. 3). My selection has been based onthematic andstructural criteria,availability, and,in the interests of furtherwidening the critical field,adesire to engage some different work fromthat discussed inthetwo books ...
... Valassopoulos 2007: ch. 1). Some might even say ominous, giventhat the status of Arab Muslim women's creativework inthe Westismore complex thana definition of marginality would allow.Inthe literary field,a minor canon ofliterature has ...
... permits intersubjective exchange'(2005: 13). Valassopoulos adds thatafeministapproach shouldnot justbe assumed inArab Muslimwomen's creativetexts or inmodes of critical response (2007: ch. 1). While criticism often emphasizes strategies.