Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520200721 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 277 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Saadawi (b. 1931) is an Egyptian woman, a medical doctor, a prolific writer, and the Arabic-speaking worlds most outspoken and radical feminist. Without exaggerating, Malti-Douglas writes that No Arab woman inspires as much emotion as Nawal El Saadawi. No woman in the Middle East has been the subject of more polemic. Certainly, no Arab womans pen has violated as many sacred enclosures. Malti-Douglas then devotes over two hundred pages to analyzing Saadawis overheated rhetoric and bad novels, calling on all the usual feminist tropes (title and subtitle give their flavor, as d. Five Stars VERY GOOD
Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Imprisoned in her native Egypt under Sadat, El Saadawi is now among those on the death lists of Islamic religious conservatives.In Men, Women, and God(s) Fedwa Malti-Douglas makes the work of this important but little-understood writer truly accessible. Contending that El Saadawi's texts cannot be read in isolation from their Islamic and Arabic heritage, Malti-Douglas draws upon a deep knowledge of classical and modern Arabic textual traditions—and on extensive conversations with Nawal El Saadawi—to place the writer within her cultural and historical context. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil, El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Arab community for her unforgettable female heroes and explosive narratives, which boldly address sexual violence, female circumcision, theology, and other politically charged themes. Her outspoken feminism and critique of patriarchy have also earned her the wrath of repressive forces in the Middle East. With this impassioned and radical exegesis of El Saadawi's prolific output, Malti-Douglas has written a crucial study of one of the most controversial and influential wri
. Until this title appeared, the only English-language book available about her was a translation of Georges Tarabishi's unfavorable critique, Woman Against Her Sex (Saqi, 1988). A well-organized, readable, and informative introduction not only to El Saadwi's work but to Arabic feminist issues, this is essential for all academic literature and women's studies collections.?Beverly Miller, Boise State Univ. From Library Journal El Saadawi is the Arab world's best-known feminist writer, a novelist and playwright of great range and power known in the West primarily for a 1980 article in Ms. Lib., Id.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. magazine in which she revealed her own childhood genital excision. Here, Malti-Douglas (comparative literature and women's studies, Indiana Univ.) offers a penetrating and admiring anal