Title Women and words in Saudi Arabia : the politics of literary discourse / Saddeka Arebi

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1994] ©1994

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Description xi, 357 pages ; 24 cm Contents Introduction: On Women and Words in Arabia - Discourses of Power -- 1. Women's Opportunities and the Social Organization of Writing -- 2. History of the Present and the Presence of History: Traffic in Symbols, Knowledge, and Experience -- 3. Victimization Literature: The Poetics of Justice and the Politics of Representation -- 4. Redefining the Issues: The Politics of Re-vision and the Production of Difference -- 5. Literary Marginalization and the Privatization of the Public -- 6. Conclusions and Implications: Contexts of Resistance and the Dialectics of Protest and Affirmation Analysis Arabic literature Arabic literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-346) and index Subject Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Arabic literature -- Saudi Arabia -- History and criticism. Feminism and literature -- Saudi Arabia. Women authors, Arab -- Saudi Arabia -- Political and social views. Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Social conditions. LC no. 94009898 ISBN 023108420X (alk. paper) 0231084218 (paperback)

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