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Arab Women Writers : An Anthology of Short Stories.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series, Women Writers in Translation SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (323 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791483466
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Arab Women WritersDDC classification:
  • 892.7/301089287
LOC classification:
  • PJ7694.E8 -- A719 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Arab Women Writers: A Brief Sketch -- Thematic Aspects -- Modes of Writing -- Arab Women: Old Images, New Pro.les -- Part I. Growing Up Female -- That Summer Holiday -- The Parting Gift -- Let's Play Doctor -- In the Moonlight -- At the Beach -- A Helping Hand -- In the Recesses of Memory -- Fragments from a Life -- The Slave -- Part II. Love and Sexuality -- The Picture -- The Picture -- The Picture -- The Smile -- My Mother's Friend -- A Worthless Woman -- Part III. Male-Female Relations -- Where To? -- The Cat -- The Woman of My Dreams -- Mozart's Fez -- A Virgin Continent -- An Old Couple -- Part IV. Marriage -- A Mistake in the Knitting -- My Wedding Night -- The Dummy -- The Cat, the Maid, and the Wife -- Sun, I Am the Moon -- The Dreadful Sea -- Woman with a Story -- The Persian Rug -- The Dream -- Pharaoh Is Drowning Again -- Part V. Childbearing -- The Spider's Web -- Man and Woman -- Half a Woman -- Heir Apparent -- The Newcomer -- Part VI. Self-Fulillment -- International Women's Day -- The Filly Became a Mouse -- Restoration -- Waiting for Hayla -- The Closely Guarded Secret -- I Will Never Forfeit My Right -- Homecoming -- Bittersweet Memories -- Part VII. Customs and Values -- Tears for Sale -- Misfortune in the Alley -- Questioning -- The Dinosaur -- Moonstruck -- A Moment of Truth -- The Future -- The Gallows -- Pat VIII. The Winds of Change -- The Breeze of Youth -- A Successful Woman -- In Need of Reassurance -- Short and Sassy -- The Collapse of Barriers -- The Beginning -- A Moment of Contemplation -- I Will Try Tomorrow -- Notes -- About the Authors.
Summary: A collection of sixty short stories by women writers from across the Arab world.
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Intro -- Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Arab Women Writers: A Brief Sketch -- Thematic Aspects -- Modes of Writing -- Arab Women: Old Images, New Pro.les -- Part I. Growing Up Female -- That Summer Holiday -- The Parting Gift -- Let's Play Doctor -- In the Moonlight -- At the Beach -- A Helping Hand -- In the Recesses of Memory -- Fragments from a Life -- The Slave -- Part II. Love and Sexuality -- The Picture -- The Picture -- The Picture -- The Smile -- My Mother's Friend -- A Worthless Woman -- Part III. Male-Female Relations -- Where To? -- The Cat -- The Woman of My Dreams -- Mozart's Fez -- A Virgin Continent -- An Old Couple -- Part IV. Marriage -- A Mistake in the Knitting -- My Wedding Night -- The Dummy -- The Cat, the Maid, and the Wife -- Sun, I Am the Moon -- The Dreadful Sea -- Woman with a Story -- The Persian Rug -- The Dream -- Pharaoh Is Drowning Again -- Part V. Childbearing -- The Spider's Web -- Man and Woman -- Half a Woman -- Heir Apparent -- The Newcomer -- Part VI. Self-Fulillment -- International Women's Day -- The Filly Became a Mouse -- Restoration -- Waiting for Hayla -- The Closely Guarded Secret -- I Will Never Forfeit My Right -- Homecoming -- Bittersweet Memories -- Part VII. Customs and Values -- Tears for Sale -- Misfortune in the Alley -- Questioning -- The Dinosaur -- Moonstruck -- A Moment of Truth -- The Future -- The Gallows -- Pat VIII. The Winds of Change -- The Breeze of Youth -- A Successful Woman -- In Need of Reassurance -- Short and Sassy -- The Collapse of Barriers -- The Beginning -- A Moment of Contemplation -- I Will Try Tomorrow -- Notes -- About the Authors.

A collection of sixty short stories by women writers from across the Arab world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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