Innovationen und Reproduktionen in Kulturen und Gesellschaften (IRICS) Wien, 9. bis 11. Dezember 2005

S E C T I O N S

(counter-)memories and national history in modern Arabic feminist literature

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions to:

Wafaa Sorour (University of South Valley, Qena)

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ABSTRACT:

• Victimization and victimhood; the legacies of Arab patriarchal societies as viewed in Arab women writings.
• The intersection of politics, ethnicity, and gender in modern Arab women writings.
• Regional and National Identities in Arab Feminist literature.
• Representations of Race and gender: Formation of identity in Arab Feminist literature.

ReferentInnen / Speakers

• Wafaa Sorour (South Valley University, Qena): Disordering identity And Social Violence in The Stone of Laughter by the Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat [ABSTRACT]
• Nabil Abdel Fattah ( University of South Valley, Qena): Image of The Orphan Child in Western and Eastern Fictional Works [ABSTRACT]
• Ahmed Sokarno Abdel Hafez (University of South Valley, Aswan, Egypt): Ethnic Identity in the works of some Nubian Novelists [ABSTRACT]
• Nagwa Elzeini (Helwan University, Egypt): Euphemism as a linguistic phenomenon [ABSTRACT]
• Sedki Sedik Hassan (Tanta University): Irony in Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence [ABSTRACT]