Beyond the Nation

Riham Debian

ISBN 10: 3639710878 / ISBN 13: 9783639710878

Published by Scholars' Press Feb 2014, 2014

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Beyond the Nation deals with Third World women's literary and cinematic intervention in the gendered discourse of the nation through a multicultural feminist reading of Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2003), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2004) and Marziyeh Meshkini's film The Day I Became a Woman (2000). The book argues for the texts' production of the discourse of post-gendered nationalism and glocal national identity through subverting the binary logic of nationalist/fundamentalist and imperialist discourses, and charting a synthesis between silence/ speech, private/public, feminine/feminist and local/global.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 252 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond the Nation
• Publisher: Scholars' Press Feb 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639710878
• ISBN 13: 9783639710878
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 16D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 393 grams

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Synopsis

Beyond the Nation deals with Third World women’s literary and cinematic intervention in the gendered discourse of the nation through a multicultural feminist reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2004) and Marziyeh Meshkini’s film The Day I Became a Woman (2000). The book argues for the texts’ production of the discourse of post-gendered nationalism and glocal national identity through subverting the binary logic of nationalist/fundamentalist and imperialist discourses, and charting a synthesis between silence/ speech, private/public, feminine/feminist and local/global.

About the Author

Riham E.A. Debian is a Lecturer in Alexandria University, Egypt. Her M.A. thesis deals with Arab women's feminism. Her PhD tackles the question of the gender politics of nationalism/fundamentalism and globalization. She participated in a number of international conferences and workshops. She is currently working on the gender politics of Islamism.