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Scheherazade's Legacy Susan M. Darraj

Scheherazade's Legacy par Susan M. Darraj

Scheherazade's Legacy Susan M. Darraj


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Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing Susan M. Darraj

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. Contributions from such writers as Naomi Shihab Nye, Diana Abu-Jaber, Suheir Hammad, Etal Adnan, Elmaz Abinader, and others, explore the complexities of writing in and for a culture not entirely their own. The essays here, complemented by selections, mostly original, of each author's work, promises to be a cornerstone in the study of writing by women writers of Arab descent who find themselves between two cultures, two worlds that are often at odds.

With a foreword by Barbara Nimri Aziz, journalist, and founder of RAWI (Radius of Arab-American Writers), this collection is one of the first books to assemble the voices of women writers of Arab descent on the subject of writing itself. Contributors consider the difficulties, obstacles, joys, failures and successes of writing from an Arab perspective but largely for American audiences. They consider aspects of identity, family, politics, memory, and other crucial cultural issues that impact them personally and professionally as writers. In creative and thoughtful prose, these important women writers shed new light on what it means to be a writer in a world not fully your own.

À propos de Susan M. Darraj

SUSAN MUADDI DARRAJ is a teacher and freelance writer. Her articles, essays, and fiction have appeared in various publications and anthologies including Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century and Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Feminism.

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Foreword by Barbara Nimri Aziz Introduction by Susan Muaddi Darraj Identity Poetry Is My Home Address by Mohja Kahf Email to the Muse by Lisa Suhair Majaj My Country, My Words: Reflections of My Life as a Writer by Nathalie Handal Politics The Itinerary of an Arab-American Writer by Etel Adnan On Becoming a Writer by Ghada Karmi Directing My Pen Inwards by Suheir Hammad Inspiration Doing What We Can by Naomi Shihab Nye Coming to America by Dima Hilal Memory The Relentlessness of Memory by Elmaz Abinader A Life of Stories by Diana Abu-Jaber Language The Coming Out of the Chameleon by Samia Serageldin For My Mother Who Gave Me the Words, and My Father Who Gave Me the Sound by Marian Haddad Contributors

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CIN0275981762G
9780275981761
0275981762
Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing Susan M. Darraj
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ABC-CLIO
20040830
176
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