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#### Interrogates the relationship between revolutionary movements and experimental life writing forms by contemporary Arab women * Uniquely interrogates the interplay of power, gender, and resistance in life narratives by politically committed Arab women and explores the strategic function of non-fiction in articulating the role and position of women during crucial historial moments * Offers a new understanding of Arab life writing as part of a cultural corpus of resistance literature which must be contextualised and understood within specific fields of power * Brings together critically acclaimed and less familiar texts by Arab women to examine a range of experimental autobiographical modes, including online forms of self-expression * Covers recent history and ongoing socio-political upheavals with a focus on regional imperatives In the context of twenty-first century Arab uprisings, women invoke the complexity of their experiences as citizens, revolutionaries, women and writers through a range of narrative strategies. Autobiographical discourses that emerge as part of national revolutionary struggles make audible Arab women’s voices and experiences, foregrounding women as active

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Author

Cheurfa, Hiyem (author)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474489713

Category

nonfiction