Susan M. Darraj

Scheherazade's Legacy (eBook, PDF)

Arab and Arab American Women on Writing

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313085260
• Artikelnr.: 37820808

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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