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- Title
Contemporary Egyptian and Palestinian Women's Writing as 'Committed Literature'.
- Authors
Nasser, Safaa S.
- Abstract
In her article "Contemporary Egyptian and Palestinian Women's Writing as 'Committed Literature'" Safaa S. Nasser discusses the role of Arab women writers whose works were harbingers of the Arab Spring of 2011. Nasser's analysis demonstrate that the majority of Arab women writers acted as agents of feminist action and social change through their critique of patriarchal, phallocentric domination and through their call for a secular sensibility. Their works demonstrate the symbiotic relationship between political, national, and feminist struggle for equality between genders. To exemplify this revolutionary perspective, Nasser analyzes texts by Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Salwa Bakr, Sakina Fuad, Mona Rageb, Amina Kazak, Samira Azzam, Sahar Khalifeh, and Fadwa Tuqan.
- Subjects
ARAB women authors; ARAB Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012; SOCIAL change; SYMBIOSIS (Psychology); FEMINISTS
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Article