Imprisonment, freedom, and literary opacity in the work of Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar

In her astute study of contemporary Arab women writers, Anastasia Valassopoulos begins by noting the pitfalls of much existing criticism of writers such as El Saadawi and Djebar in the West. Citing Amal Amireh's article on the fraught history of the reception of El Saadawi in Egypt and in Europ...

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Main Author: Hiddleston, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010