{"product_id":"9780815653295","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.\u003cbr\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, Anxiety of Erasure shines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107335717104,"sku":"9780815653295","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780815653295_p0.jpg?v=1763752686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780815653295","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}