{"product_id":"anxiety-of-erasure-hanadi-al-samman-9780815636625","title":"Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eFar from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's repression and veiling, \u003ci\u003eAnxiety of Erasure\u003c\/i\u003e looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw'udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAl-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of six prominent authors whose works span over half a century and define the current status of Arab diaspora studies--Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Na'na', Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi. Exploring the journeys in time and space undertaken by these women, \u003ci\u003eAnxiety of Erasure \u003c\/i\u003eshines a light on the ways in which writers remain participants in their homelands' intellectual lives, asserting both the traumatic and the triumphant aspects of diaspora. The result is a nuanced Arab women's poetic that celebrates rootlessness and rootedness, autonomy and belonging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanadi Al-Samman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815636628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815636625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.40w x 0.68d","brand":"Hanadi Al-Samman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926476390655,"sku":"9780815636625","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5e0ed13f-541f-4fdb-ac46-f1ad854c35d8.jpg?v=1681083285","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anxiety-of-erasure-hanadi-al-samman-9780815636625","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}