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Scheherazade's legacy : Arab and Arab American women on writing
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"In a time when it seems that the gap of understanding between the West and the Middle East continues to widen, Scheherazade's Legacy builds a bridge between the two cultures. Collected here are th...
"In a time when it seems that the gap of understanding between the West and the Middle East continues to widen, Scheherazade's Legacy builds a bridge between the two cultures. Collected here are the voices of those who define the genre of Arab Anglophone writing - that literature that describes the cultural experiences of those with Arab identities living, and often writing, in the West." "This collection is one of the first books to assemble the voices of women writers of Arab descent on the subject of writing itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- edited by Susan Muaddi Darraj ; foreword by Barbara Nimri Aziz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xv, 159 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780275981761, 0275981762
- OCLC
- ocm55044727
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Barbara Nimri Aziz -- Introduction / Susan Muaddi Darraj -- Poetry is my home address / Mohja Kahf -- E-mail to the muse / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- My country, my words : reflections of my life as a writer / Nathalie Handal -- The itinerary of an Arab American writer / Etel Adnan -- On becoming a writer / Ghada Karmi -- Directing my pen inward / Suheir Hammad -- Doing what we can / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Writing drop by drop / Dima Hilal -- The relentlessness of memory / Elmaz Abinader -- A life of stories / Diana Abu-Jaber -- The coming out of the chameleon / Samia Serageldin -- For my mother who gave me the words, and my father who gave me the sound / Marian Haddad
Subjects
- American literature -- Arab American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Women -- Arab countries -- Intellectual life.
- Arab American women -- Intellectual life.
- Women and literature -- Arab countries.
- American literature -- Arab influences.
- Women and literature -- United States.
- Women authors, American -- Biography.
- Arab American women -- Biography.
- Women authors, Arab -- Biography.
- Authorship.