"Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices Against Violence analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women. The female authors destabilize essentialist framings of Arab identity through a series of reflective interrogations and "contesting" literary genres that include novels, short stories, poetry, docudramas, interviews and testimonials. Rejecting a purist "literature for literature's sake" ethic, they embrace a dissident poetics of feminist critique and creative resistance as they engage."@en
"Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices Against Violence analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women. The female authors destabilize essentialist framings of Arab identity through a series of reflective interrogations and ""contesting"" literary genres that include novels, short stories, poetry, docudramas, interviews and testimonials. Rejecting a purist ""literature for literature's sake"" ethic, they embrace a dissident poetics of feminist critique and creative resistance as they engage in multipl."

Dissident writings of Arab women : voices against violence