| #4970995 in Books | University of Minnesota Press | 2006-12-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x5.89l,.60 | File type: PDF | 174 pages | |||
“Shahrazad has staged a comeback. But this legendary storyteller is not the desperate, wily victim of a murderous tyrant that Western writers have depicted. Instead, in recent Maghrebian versions, she is a powerful Arab woman representing other powe
Shahrazad, the legendary fictional storyteller who spun the tales of the 1,001 Arabian Nights, has long been rendered as a silent exotic beauty by Western film and fiction adaptations. Now, she talks back to present a new image of Muslim women.
In Liberating Shahrazad, Suzanne Gauch analyzes how postcolonial writers and filmmakers from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia have reclaimed the storyteller in order to portray Muslim women in ways that highlight...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam (PostHumanities) | Suzanne Gauch. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
