Neopatriarchy and Trauma in Arab Women’s Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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How do Arab women writers, both in Arabic and in English, reflect on the unique challenges and conditions facing women in the Arab world? Critically engaging Hisham Sharabi’s concept of ‘neopatriarchy’ as well as European and Arab literary and psychoanalytic theory, in this book Layla AlAmmar analyses works by canonical authors such as Hanan Al-Shaykh, Fadia Faqir, and Nawal El-Saadawi as well as less well-known voices such as Lamia Ziadé, Arwa Salih, May Ziadeh, and Yasmin El-Rifae. She argues that these text represent neopatriarchal traumas specific to Arab women and offer crucial counternarratives to the erasure and suppression enacted upon them by hegemonic structures. Rejecting the tendency towards ‘redemption’ in postcolonial trauma theory, the book offers a more sober reading of the traumas caused and sustained by conditions of neopatriarchy as well as the oblique modes of resistance evident within these texts. It will be of interest to scholars of Arab, postcolonial, and comparative literature as well as literary trauma theory and gender studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-24
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:301 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780755657254

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Layla AlAmmar is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the American University of Kuwait. In addition to her academic work she has also published two novels: The Pact We Made (2019) and Silence is a Sense (2021). She has written for LitHub, the TLS, Arablit Quarterly, The New Arab, New Lines Magazine, and The Markaz Review. She holds a PhD from Lancaster University.

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Layla AlAmmar's clear-eyed and crisp writing in this important book makes it required reading for scholars interested in liberatory, anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal thought. AlAmmar's critical analysis of Arab women's writing comes from a place of deep and penetrating understanding of Arab culture and history. This book deconstructs the cliched borders between men and women's writing, theory, and literature.

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IntroductionL’homme arabe moderne n’existe pasChapter OneThe (Arab) Woman as a Speaking SubjectChapter TwoAwakenings, Revolutions, and Defeat: Emotional Epistemologies of a Neopatriarchal Unconscious in Egypt’s Women’s MovementsChapter ThreeNeopatriarchal Melancholy in Arab Women’s WritingPostscriptOn Palestine: a victim of Arab NeopatriarchyConclusionLost Causes, Radical Love, and Imperfect Archives of TruthsNotesWork Cited