TY - BOOK AU - Majaj,Lisa Suhair AU - Sunderman,Paula W. AU - Saliba,Therese TI - Intersections: gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels SN - 9780815629764 (pbk.) : AV - PJ7525.2 .I55 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Syracuse PB - Syracuse University Press KW - Arabic fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Women KW - Arab countries KW - Social conditions KW - Feminism and literature KW - Women and literature KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Politics in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-275) and index; Modernist Arab women writers: a historical overview / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab feminism in a transnational world / Amal Amireh -- Reenvisioning national community in Salwa Bakr's The golden chariot / Magda M. al-Nowaihi -- The sixth day of compassion: the im/possible communities of life toward death / Mary N. Layoun -- Partitions and precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian political geography / Barbara Harlow -- A country beyond reach: Liana Badr's Writings of the Palestinian diaspora / Therese Saliba -- Strategic androgyny: passing as masculine in Barakat's The stone of laughter / Mona Fayad -- The fourth language: subaltern expression in Djebar's Fantasia / Nada Elia -- Voice, representation, and resistance: Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Hanan al-Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra: a counter-narrative and a counter-history / Sabah Ghandour ER -