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Sherazade

Author : Leila Sebbar
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623710510
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Sherazade written by Leila Sebbar and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHERAZADE, AGED 17, DARK CURLY HAIR, GREEN EYES, MISSING Sherazade is seventeen, Algerian, and a ¬runaway in Paris. Although she has no morals, no scruples, no politics, no apparent emotional depth and little education, Sherazade remains curiously unattached but innocent in the city's underworld of drop-outs, outcasts, political activists and junkies. With honesty and lyricism this novel exposes the various issues that affect a young woman living in a city which is both sophisticated and provincial, liberal and conservative, tolerant and prejudiced. In Paris, Sherazade is pursued by Julian, the son of French-Algerians who is an ardent Arabist. Pigeon-holed by Julian into the ¬traditional exotic mold, Sherazade endeavors to create her own definition of Algerian ¬femininity and in doing so breaks down conventions and stereotypes. It is Julian's obsession with her that spurs her on to self-discovery and to make decisions about her future. Sherazade is about a young woman haunted by her Algerian past. It is a powerful account of a person who searches for her true identity but is caught between worlds—Africa and Europe, her parents’ and her own, colony and capital. Ultimately it is an ¬account of possession, identity and the realities of urban life today and what can happen when society fails to acknowledge its younger generations.

Sherazade

Author : Leila Sebbar
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781566569880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Sherazade written by Leila Sebbar and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHERAZADE, AGED 17, DARK CURLY HAIR, GREEN EYES, MISSING Sherazade is seventeen, Algerian, and a ¬runaway in Paris. Although she has no morals, no scruples, no politics, no apparent emotional depth and little education, Sherazade remains curiously unattached but innocent in the city's underworld of drop-outs, outcasts, political activists and junkies. With honesty and lyricism this novel exposes the various issues that affect a young woman living in a city which is both sophisticated and provincial, liberal and conservative, tolerant and prejudiced. In Paris, Sherazade is pursued by Julian, the son of French-Algerians who is an ardent Arabist. Pigeon-holed by Julian into the ¬traditional exotic mold, Sherazade endeavors to create her own definition of Algerian ¬femininity and in doing so breaks down conventions and stereotypes. It is Julian's obsession with her that spurs her on to self-discovery and to make decisions about her future. Sherazade is about a young woman haunted by her Algerian past. It is a powerful account of a person who searches for her true identity but is caught between worlds—Africa and Europe, her parents’ and her own, colony and capital. Ultimately it is an ¬account of possession, identity and the realities of urban life today and what can happen when society fails to acknowledge its younger generations.

After Orientalism

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333460
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book After Orientalism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Edward Said’s Orientalism speak to us today? What relevance did and does it have politically and intellectually? How and in what modes does Orientalism engage with new, intersecting fields of inquiry?At the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Orientalism these questions shape the essays collected in the present volume. The “after” of the title does not only guide the contributions in a look on past discussions, but specifically points at future research as well. Orientalism’s critical entanglements are thus connected to productive looks; these productive looks make us read differently, but only after we recognize our struggle with the dominant notions that we live by, that divide and unite us. More specifically, this volume addresses three fields of research enabling productive looks: visual culture; the body, sexuality and the performative; and national identities, modernity and gender. All articles, weaving delicate, new analytical and theoretical textures, maintain vital links with at least two of the fields mentioned. Orientalism’s role as a cultural catalyst is gauged in the analysis of materials such as Iranian film, 16th and 17th century Venetian representations of “the Turk,” Barthes’ take on Japanese culture, modern Arab travel narratives, Palestinian popular culture, photography on and of the Maghreb, Japanese queer and gay culture, the 19th century Illustrated London News, theories on migration and exile, postcolonial cinema, and Hanan al-Shaykh’s and Mai Ghoussoub’s writing on civil war in Lebanon.Authors include: Karina Eileraas, Belgin Turan Özkaya, Joshua Paul Dale, John Potvin, Mark McLelland, Tina Sherwell, Nasrin Rahimieh, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Vallasopoulos, Suha Kudsieh and Kate McInturff.

Between Image and Identity

Author : Karina Eileraas
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739118122
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Between Image and Identity written by Karina Eileraas and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to insist on the visual as a form of psychic and political violence? And how are women specifically targeted by symbolic violence during periods of war and colonization? Between Image and Identity highlights postcolonial feminist efforts to transform violence into aesthetic and political strategies of resistance. This book explores the 'autobiographical' literature, visual, and performance art of postcolonial women from Maghreb and Southeast Asia including Leila Sebbar, Assia Djebar, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Karina Eileraas critically examines how contemporary these artists actively participate in the violence of representation in order to re-imagine the relationship between image and identity. By exploring the creative potentials of fantasy, alienation, and misrecognition in their work, these artists rewrite postcolonial history and re-vision the relationships between sexual politics, symbolic violence, and national memory. Between Image and Identity is a compelling and innovative book that will appeal to those interested in postcolonial and feminist studies, autobiography, visual culture, war and trauma studies.

Arab, Muslim, Woman

Author : Lindsey Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134138784
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Arab, Muslim, Woman written by Lindsey Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book analyzes a wide range of literary and visual texts, many of which have not received treatment elsewhere, and promotes an emergent canon of women's writing and film.

Sherazade

Author : Leïla Sebbar
Publisher : Quartet Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780704327788
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Sherazade written by Leïla Sebbar and published by Quartet Books Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherazade is seventeen, Algerian, and a run-away in Paris. She is haunted by her Algerian past; she searchs for her true identity in Arab books but is caught between worlds -- Africa and Europe, her parents' and her own, colony and capital...

AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520215214
Total Pages : 1464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Orchestration of the Arts — A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers

Author : Marlies Kronegger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792360087
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Orchestration of the Arts — A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers written by Marlies Kronegger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Art? This perennial question is forcefully thrown open by the present day electronic expansion of its field and proliferation of arts. Toward the treatment of this great question with deepest philosophical underpinnings, this collection of studies means to lay a ground. It is presumed that art, transcendentality, the designs of the cosmos might yield some of their mysteries while we investigate the Orchestration of the Arts stretching into all main lines of the human creativity: literature, history... and encompassing the distinctive and yet symbiotically inclined music, song, painting, opera, drama, stage decor, architecture, and ornament.

Queer Nations

Author : Jarrod Hayes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226321061
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Queer Nations written by Jarrod Hayes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous populace. However, in the wake of World War II, when independence movements began to gain momentum in these French colonies, the dominant national discourses attempted to define national identities by exclusion. One rallying cry from the 1930s was "Islam is my religion, Arabic is my language, Algeria is my fatherland." In this incisive postcolonial study, Jarrod Hayes uses literary analysis to examine how Francophone novelists from the Maghreb engaged in a diametric nation-building project. Their works imagined a diverse nation peopled by those who were excluded by the dominant political discourses, especially those who did not conform to traditional sexual norms. By incorporating representations of marginal sexualities, sexual dissidence, and gender insubordination, Maghrebian novelists imagined an anticolonial struggle that would result in sexual liberation and envisioned nations that could be defined and developed inclusively.

Contemporary Arab Women Writers

Author : Anastasia Valassopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134260857
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Arab Women Writers written by Anastasia Valassopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos raises the profile of Arab women writers by examining how they negotiate contexts and experiences that have come to be identified with postcoloniality such as the preoccupation with Western feminism, political conflict and war, the social effects of non-conformity and female empowerment, and the negotiation of influential cultural discourses such as orientalism. Contemporary Arab Women Writers revitalizes theoretical concepts associated with feminism, gender studies and cultural studies, and explores how art history, popular culture, translation studies, psychoanalysis and news media all offer productive ways to associate with Arab women’s writing that work beyond a limiting socio-historical context. Discussing the writings of authors including Ahdaf Soueif, Nawal El Saadawi, Leila Sebbar, Liana Badr and Hanan Al-Shaykh, this book represents a new direction in postcolonial literary criticism that transcends constrictive monothematic approaches.

Maghrebian Mosaic

Author : Mildred P. Mortimer
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894108884
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Maghrebian Mosaic written by Mildred P. Mortimer and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Albert Memmi published the first anthology of francophone Maghrebian literature, he expressed his unhappy belief that francophone writing would quickly be eclipsed by Arabic. To the contrary, this volume demonstrates that the francophone writing of North Africa remains vibrant and prolific.

Mapping the Self

Author : Alex Goody
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443884316
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Self written by Alex Goody and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title indicates, three themes of perpetual interest in contemporary cultural studies – place, identity, and nationality – converge in this critical essay collection. While proffering varied and sometimes clashing arguments concerning the title themes, the essays and their authors all assert the importance of the creative text in defining, contesting, and understanding place, identity, and nationality in the modern and contemporary globalised world. The critical frameworks of these essays grow out of the groundbreaking literary and cultural studies theory of the past two decades. However, several of the essays map hitherto unchartered territory by engaging with recent works from emerging authors and a director, and providing new insight into the work of established authors. Beyond mapping new academic terrain, the collection is further distinguished by its global perspective with texts and authors from around the world which come together in a unique multinational dialogue. The collection is divided into three sections. The first, “Women Writers and Nationalism”, includes essays on Gertrude Stein, Adrienne Rich, Jo Shapcott, and Leila Aboulela. The second, “National Identity and Contemporary Fictions”, examines the role of contemporary fiction in establishing the respective national identities and histories of Wales and Australia. The third, “Transnational Identities”, analyses Partition literature, migrant women’s literature of France and Spain, and film director Shane Meadows’ take on new forms of nationalism. From India, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the United States, the texts and essays crisscross the globe, exploring the relationships between nationality and identity through film, memoir, poetry, and the novel. Some examine national literatures and identities; others focus on the struggle of the individual, particularly the migrant individual, to define his or her identity within a multicultural, multinational framework. Together, the essays register both collective and individual responses to nationality and illustrate new forms of nationalism and identity in the modern and contemporary world.

A Feminist Mythology

Author : Chiara Bottici
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350095982
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Feminist Mythology written by Chiara Bottici and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of “womanhood” through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.

Women's Writing in Contemporary France

Author : Gill Rye
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062278
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Women's Writing in Contemporary France written by Gill Rye and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date introduction to an analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France, including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counter-parts

Transfigurations of the Maghreb

Author : Winifred Woodhull
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816620547
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Transfigurations of the Maghreb written by Winifred Woodhull and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen growing interest in the politics, history, and literature of the postcolonial world. In the case of the Maghreb, scholars have examined the consequences of decolonization for both North Africans and Maghrebian immigrant communities now living in France, and international attention is currently focused on the rise of fundamentalism in Algeria and the implications of this for France and Algeria's domestic and foreign policies. Transfigurations of the Maghreb, which emphasizes the intersections of literature and politics, the local and the global, is at once a timely addition to contemporary debates about the Maghreb and a valuable contribution to the field of postcolonial studies in general. Transfigurations of the Maghreb addresses the question of gender in the context of postcolonial studies by examining the ways in which gender is inscribed in texts written about the Maghreb since the 1950s by both French and Maghrebian authors. -- from http://www.jstor.org (June 23, 2014).

Writing New Identities

Author : Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452900337
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Writing New Identities written by Gisela Brinker-Gabler and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Postcolonial France

Author : Fiona Barclay
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739145053
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Writing Postcolonial France written by Fiona Barclay and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory. By viewing metropolitan France through the prism of its relationship with its former colonies in North Africa, the book maps the complexities of contemporary France, demonstrating an emerging postcoloniality within France itself.