Resisting Silence in Arab Women's Autobiographies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8969833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magda M Al-Nowaihi, Magda M Al‐Nowaihi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 477-502 |
| Publication date | 2001-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743801004019 |
| OpenAlex | W2165024529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Fadwa Tuqan, Assia Djebar, and Latifa al-Zayyat are three Arab women who are well known for their literary and artistic creativity, as well as for their political activism. Each has written at least one autobiographical work charting her struggles in the personal, political, and literary arenas, and each has chosen to express these struggles in terms of finding a voice that resists silence but also acknowledges that silence is a form of resistance. 1 In writing their autobiographical works, these women are interested in creating not simply a female autobiographical tradition but, rather, a tradition that specifically does credit to their need to authorize their voices without posing as authorities from above, to write narratives that are simultaneously antiauthoritarian and authoritative, and to do so by speaking for and on behalf of others without appropriating them or subsuming them into their own agendas. Their autobiographical works are thus marked, and ultimately enriched, by tension, hesitation, and anxiety, particularly regarding their own power and authority as authors. This hesitation enables them to express collective sorrows and dreams in this seemingly most individualistic of genres. 2
Aesthetics · Art · Creativity · Individualism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Silence · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2001-2002
Bibliography of Periodical Literature
Popular Culture and Nationalism
Libertações na poesia da palestina Fadwa Tuqan
Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post- naksa poetry
A Presentist, Palestinian, Pedagogical Reading of Language and Gender Politics in Middleton’s Women Beware Women
Feminism and the Question of ?Woman? in Assia Djebar's Vaste est la prison
Fictionalising the Father in Maïssa Bey’s Entendez-vous dans les montagnes
The Poetics of the Poet’s Autobiography
Reading and Writing the Turn-of-the-Century Egyptian Woman Intellectual
Writing Disidentification and the Relational Self in Fadwa Tuqan’s Mountainous Journey
Tuqan and Dayan
Harem education and heterotopic imagination
Bibliography of Periodical Literature
The sky is the limit’
Changing from the margins
Arab Women’s Elegy Writing
Time bandits
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |