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Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings, written by Hanadi al-Samman

Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings, written by... Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings. Syracuse, ny: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 294 pages. $39.95 cloth.Hanadi al-Samman’s Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings offers an important reading of contemporary Arab women writers in the diaspora, including Europe and the Americas, over the past half-century, contributing to the fields of Arabic literature, gender studies, and diaspora studies. Specifically, the book provides a window onto one of the more persistent though lesser discussed phenomena of modern Arabic writing, that is, the dominance of national trauma as a remembered locus of diasporic identity. Al-Samman focuses on the depiction of memory, exile, dispossession, war, and authoritarianism in the work of Syrian and Lebanese women authors writing in Arabic in the European diaspora, specifically Paris and London. As al-Samman shows, the predominance of these themes in the work of women authors covered in her study is due in no small part to the fact that so much of the violence attributed to these experiences has centered on the fate of women in general, and particularly on women’s bodies.In this sense, al-Samman’s willingness to “interrogate cultural discourses pertinent to women’s bodies, identity, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Arabic Literature Brill

Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings, written by Hanadi al-Samman

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Journal of Arabic Literature , Volume 48 (2): 6 – Aug 9, 2017
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Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings. Syracuse, ny: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 294 pages. $39.95 cloth.Hanadi al-Samman’s Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings offers an important reading of contemporary Arab women writers in the diaspora, including Europe and the Americas, over the past half-century, contributing to the fields of Arabic literature, gender studies, and diaspora studies. Specifically, the book provides a window onto one of the more persistent though lesser discussed phenomena of modern Arabic writing, that is, the dominance of national trauma as a remembered locus of diasporic identity. Al-Samman focuses on the depiction of memory, exile, dispossession, war, and authoritarianism in the work of Syrian and Lebanese women authors writing in Arabic in the European diaspora, specifically Paris and London. As al-Samman shows, the predominance of these themes in the work of women authors covered in her study is due in no small part to the fact that so much of the violence attributed to these experiences has centered on the fate of women in general, and particularly on women’s bodies.In this sense, al-Samman’s willingness to “interrogate cultural discourses pertinent to women’s bodies, identity, and

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