The Essential Nawal El Saadawi :A Reader ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :A Reader

Publication series :1

Author: El Saadawi   Nawal;Newson-Horst   Doctor Adele  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2010

E-ISBN: 9781848133365

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781848133358

Subject: I1 World Literature

Keyword: 世界文学

Language: ENG

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Description

The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawis writing. From novellas and short stories to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex; from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist; from poetry to autobiography, this book is essential for anyone wishing to gain a sense of the breadth of Saadawis work.

Chapter

Introduction: The World of Nawal El Saadawi or Nawal Zaynab

PART ONE Articles, Essays and Nonfictional Prose

1 | How to Write and Why

2 | How to Fight against the Postmodern Slave System

About my dreams

Why are more people going back to religion?

How to fight back?

3 | First Trip outside the Homeland

4 | Preface to The Hidden Face of Eve

5 | Women, Creativity and Dissidence

Linking women, creativity and dissidence

Expanding the understanding of creativity

Old forms, new questions: resistance and change

Towards a new identity built on human solidarity

6 | Women and the Poor: The Challenge of Global Justice

What is development?

What is a good government in the South?

Religion, the poor and women

Women and population control

Veiling the mind

Unveiling the mind

How to empower resistance

Notes

7 | God Above, Husband Below

Notes

8 | The House of Desolation

Note

9 | The Streetwalker and the Woman Writer

10 | Muslim Women in the Market

A postmodern Christian and Muslim feminist

Books by Muslim feminists

Big media stars

Virginity and deception

Mutilation of the mind

Fighting the infidel

How to be in the market

The pleasure of creativity

11 | Bodour

12 | Writing and Freedom

13 | The Three Universal Taboos: Sex, Religion and Politics

Veiling, virginity and the name of the mother

The conflict between the two conceptions of God

Unveiling the mind

14 | Breeding Terror, or An Uncivilized Clash of Civilizations

Unveiling the mind

Two faces of the same coin

Fighting for peace

15 | Remapping the World

16 | Fear and Writing

17 | Obama’s Speech in Cairo

PART TWO Fiction and Poetry

18 | Death of an Ex-Minister

The death of His Excellency the ex-Minister

The veil

The greatest crime

Masculine confession

A modern love letter

In camera

A private letter to an artist friend

19 | My Ideal Mother

20 | A Paper that was Never Presented for Publication

21 | Sixteen Short Poems

There is a man

A half-man

Those who saw God

Rewarding the culprit and twice punishing the victim

An interim husband

A different woman

Thieves of honour

In full view of everyone

Arab rulers

Arab rulers once again

They said you were shame personified

The sin suspended in history

Inspired by the verdict pronounced by an Al-Azhar sheikh legitimizing the restoration of the hymen

Daughter of Egyptian Isis

My grandmother

My mother

22 | Inspired by the Summit Meeting with the Elite

23 | The Impact of Fanatic Religious Thought: A Story of a Young Egyptian Muslim Woman

PART THREE Drama

24 | Twelve Women in a Cell

Characters

Act One

Act Two

PART FOUR Interviews

25 | Feminism in Egypt: A Conversation with Nawal El Saadawi

Writer and doctor

Rural change

Working women under Sadat

Women and the left

26 | Fed Up with Limited Thinking

The novel that was stolen

Their heads are veiled but their belly is naked

27 | Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi

Bibliography

Books by Nawal El Saadawi

Published interviews

Selected criticism

Index

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