Joyce Zonana
Biographic Data
| ID | 292764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Zonana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Zonana |
| SIGNATURE | ZONANA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To Drink from the Source: Tobie Nathan’s A Land like You and Jewish-Egyptian Identity
A Land Like You, Tobie Nathan’s scrupulously researched yet wildly imaginative historical novel of early twentieth-century Cairo offers an extended exploration of what it means to be both Jewish and Egyptian, even as it chronicles the rise of the competing nationalisms that led to the dispersal of Egypt’s Jews. Unlike most Egyptian Jewish novelists and memoirists, Nathan claims Cairo’s Haret al-Yahud, where the city’s poorest, indigenous Jews liv…
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings by Ella Shohat
Reviewed by: On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings by Ella Shohat Joyce Zonana (bio) On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings Ella Shohat Pluto Press, 2017, xv + 464 pp. ISBN 978-0745399508, $115.00 hardcover; ISBN 978-0745399492, $30.00 paperback. At first glance, renowned cultural critic Ella Shohat's recent collection, spanning thirty years of scholarship and activism, does not app…
Enta Omri , You Are My Life”: Embracing the Arab Self in André Aciman’s Harvard Square
In most of his previous fiction and nonfiction writing, André Aciman constructs himself as a permanent exile, challenging Ammiel Alcalay’s claim that the Levantine Jewish experience gives the lie to the “modern myth of the Jew as pariah, outsider and wanderer.” Yet in his recent novel Harvard Square, Aciman approaches an affirmation of a very different kind of Levantine Jewish identity, exploring what Alcalay has called “the relationship of the J…
Le sultan et l'esclave: Orientalisme féministe et structure de Jane Eyre
J’ai souhaité révéler la folie de ceux qui recourent à l’autorité pour ramener une femme à la raison ; et j’ai choisi l’exemple d’un sultan et de son esclave, en tant que représentation des deux extrêmes du pouvoir et de la dépendance. Jean-François Marmontel Au lendemain de ses fiançailles avec son « maître », Rochester, Jane Eyre se retrouve « obligée « de l’accompagner dans un magasin de soie à Millcote et se voit « ordonnée de choisir une dem…
Chez les arabes: For Mervat
Chez les arabes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God
Barrett Browning believed that Christ's religion is essentially poetry poetry glorified. In Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress, Linda M. Lewis studies Browning's religion as poetry, her poetry as religion. book interprets Browning's literary life as an arduous spiritual quest the successive stages being a rejection of Promethean pride for Christ-like humility, affirmation of the gospels of suffering and of work, internalization of th…
Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women's Travel Books about Southeast Asia
has written an important and original work that presents a well-substantiated challenge to many recent studies of 'colonial discourse'.--Nancy L. Paxton, Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that matters. Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical …
Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart . Angela Leighton Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power . Thais E. Morgan Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, a…
The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of 'Jane Eyre
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Woman and Artist
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value
The Embodied Muse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics
The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of 'Jane Eyre
Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women's Travel Books about Southeast Asia
has written an important and original work that presents a well-substantiated challenge to many recent studies of 'colonial discourse'.--Nancy L. Paxton, Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that matters. Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical …
Enta Omri , You Are My Life”: Embracing the Arab Self in André Aciman’s Harvard Square
In most of his previous fiction and nonfiction writing, André Aciman constructs himself as a permanent exile, challenging Ammiel Alcalay’s claim that the Levantine Jewish experience gives the lie to the “modern myth of the Jew as pariah, outsider and wanderer.” Yet in his recent novel Harvard Square, Aciman approaches an affirmation of a very different kind of Levantine Jewish identity, exploring what Alcalay has called “the relationship of the J…
The Embodied Muse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Woman and Artist
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value
The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of 'Jane Eyre
Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart . Angela Leighton Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power . Thais E. Morgan Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, a…
Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women's Travel Books about Southeast Asia
has written an important and original work that presents a well-substantiated challenge to many recent studies of 'colonial discourse'.--Nancy L. Paxton, Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that matters. Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical …
Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God
Barrett Browning believed that Christ's religion is essentially poetry poetry glorified. In Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress, Linda M. Lewis studies Browning's religion as poetry, her poetry as religion. book interprets Browning's literary life as an arduous spiritual quest the successive stages being a rejection of Promethean pride for Christ-like humility, affirmation of the gospels of suffering and of work, internalization of th…
Chez les arabes: For Mervat
Chez les arabes
Le sultan et l'esclave: Orientalisme féministe et structure de Jane Eyre
J’ai souhaité révéler la folie de ceux qui recourent à l’autorité pour ramener une femme à la raison ; et j’ai choisi l’exemple d’un sultan et de son esclave, en tant que représentation des deux extrêmes du pouvoir et de la dépendance. Jean-François Marmontel Au lendemain de ses fiançailles avec son « maître », Rochester, Jane Eyre se retrouve « obligée « de l’accompagner dans un magasin de soie à Millcote et se voit « ordonnée de choisir une dem…
Enta Omri , You Are My Life”: Embracing the Arab Self in André Aciman’s Harvard Square
In most of his previous fiction and nonfiction writing, André Aciman constructs himself as a permanent exile, challenging Ammiel Alcalay’s claim that the Levantine Jewish experience gives the lie to the “modern myth of the Jew as pariah, outsider and wanderer.” Yet in his recent novel Harvard Square, Aciman approaches an affirmation of a very different kind of Levantine Jewish identity, exploring what Alcalay has called “the relationship of the J…
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings by Ella Shohat
Reviewed by: On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings by Ella Shohat Joyce Zonana (bio) On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings Ella Shohat Pluto Press, 2017, xv + 464 pp. ISBN 978-0745399508, $115.00 hardcover; ISBN 978-0745399492, $30.00 paperback. At first glance, renowned cultural critic Ella Shohat's recent collection, spanning thirty years of scholarship and activism, does not app…
To Drink from the Source: Tobie Nathan’s A Land like You and Jewish-Egyptian Identity
A Land Like You, Tobie Nathan’s scrupulously researched yet wildly imaginative historical novel of early twentieth-century Cairo offers an extended exploration of what it means to be both Jewish and Egyptian, even as it chronicles the rise of the competing nationalisms that led to the dispersal of Egypt’s Jews. Unlike most Egyptian Jewish novelists and memoirists, Nathan claims Cairo’s Haret al-Yahud, where the city’s poorest, indigenous Jews liv…
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