![]() | Anxiety of Erasure Subjects: Culture in literature.; Women in literature.; Emigration and immigration in literature.; Liberty in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Psychic trauma in literature.; Autobiographical fiction Arabic; Arabic literature; Arabic literature; Arabic lit; Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw'udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland. Hanadi Al-Samman is associate professor of Arabic language and literature in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. |
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