Memory, Voice, and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
SECTION 1: Memory and Matriarchy
	1 Memory of Latifa al-Zayyat between Influence and Ambivalence
	2 Rebuilding Baghdad: Placing Memoir in the Archive in Marina Benjamin’s Last Days in Babylon (2007) and Tamara Chalabi’s Late for Tea at the Deer Palace (2010)
	3 Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem: Re-memory and the Storied Geography of Subalterns’ Telling of Their S/Place
	4 “Don’t Get in my Face Like Ashiq Peri”: The Legacy of Azerbaijan’s Most Famous Woman Bard
	5 “Exilic Consciousness”: Memoirs of Iranian Women Émigrés
	6 Feminist Ethnography, Revisionary Historiography, and the Subaltern in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
SECTION 2:
Body and Politics
	7 Spheres of Piety: Politicization of Muslim Women in Turkish Novels
	8 Muslim Face, White Mask: Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah’s Ramza as a Mimic (Wo)man
	9 Same-sex Relations in Modern Arabic Fiction between Empowerment and Impossibility: A Case Study of Samar Yazbek’s Cinnamon
	10 Writing Veiled Bodies Anew: A Study of Maya al-Haj’s Burkini: Iʿtirāfāt Muḥajjaba
SECTION 3: Identity and Crossing Boundaries
	11 “A Girl Is Like a Bottle of Coke”: Emptied and Recycled Identities in Always Coca-Cola
	12 Shaping a Female Identity: Feminism & National Identity in Suad al-Sabah’s Poetry
	13 “An Islam of Her Own”: A Critical Reading of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
	14 Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
SECTION 4: Moving to Wider Spheres
	15 An Intersectional Feminist Reading of The Dove’s Necklace and Hend and the Soldiers
	16 Language and Identity in Postcolonial Mauritanian Muslim Women’s Writing
	17 Documenting Refugee Crisis and Post-migration Living Difficulties in Ebtissam Shakoush’s In the Camps and Social Media Representations: A Postcolonial Perspective
SECTION 5: Returning to the Scheherazade Within
	18 Djebar and Scheherazade: On Muslim Women, Past and Present
	19 Cultural Trauma and Scheherazade’s Gastro-national/Transnational Discourse in Tamara al-Refai’s Writings
	20 Revolutionizing Scheherazade: Deconstructing the Exotic and Oppressed Muslim Odalisque in Mohja Kahf’s Poetry
Index