Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance

Interrogates the relationship between revolutionary movements and experimental life writing forms by contemporary Arab women Uniquely interrogates the interplay of power, gender, and resistance in life narratives by politically committed Arab women and explores the strategic function of non-fiction in articulating the role and position of women during crucial historial momentsOffers a new understanding of Arab life writing as part of a cultural corpus of resistance literature which must be conte