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.
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.