What is it about?
This is a review of Hanadi al-Samman's book, Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings. The review examines the book's contribution to the study of diasporic literature by Levantine women writers in Europe.
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Why is it important?
This is a review of an important and much-needed study of contemporary Arab women writers in the diaspora, including Europe and the Americas, over the past half-century that contributes to the fields of Arabic literature, gender studies, and diaspora studies.
Perspectives
I hope this review opens up a conversation about scholarship on Arabic literature and new directions in the field. More important, I hope the review makes people read the book and think about Arabic literature and current developments in critical theory.
Tahia Abdel Nasser
American University in Cairo
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This page is a summary of: Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings, written by Hanadi al-Samman, Journal of Arabic Literature, August 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341343.
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