1st Edition
Arab, Muslim, Woman Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film
By Lindsey Moore
Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 1. Historical Contexts: ‘Layer After Layer’ 2. Visibility, Vision, and Voice: Algerian Women in Question (Again) 3. Melancholia in the Maghrib: Mother/Daughter Plots 4. Heterotopias: Re-Imagining Home 5. Border Crossings, Translations
Biography
Lindsey Moore is Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, where she teaches postcolonial literatures, women’s writing, and literary theory. She has published articles on representations of Arab and Muslim women and on Arab women’s writing.
