Gemie, Sharif.

Women's writing and Muslim societies : the search for dialogue, 1920-present / Sharif Gemie. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 181 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgements; Note on Citations; Introduction: A Party with a Hundred Women: on Dialogue, Orientalism and Women's Writing; Travellers' Tales: a Typology; Author and Self; The Politics of Time and Space: a Fractured Modernity; Voyages in Manistan: the Female Traveller and the Secret Woman; Islam: Return Journeys; Towards Dialogue?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.



9780708325414 9780708325391 9780708325407 9781783165414 9781299201378

GBB6H8415 bnb

017664115 Uk


Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Literature--Muslim authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Muslims in literature.
Muslim women.
Muslim authors.
Saracens in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN471 / .W664 2012