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" Women’S Testimonies of the “Arab Uprisings:” Writing the Self and the City in Rebellion (2012-2018) "
Said, Rania
Moreira, Luiza
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1054512
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TL53629
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Said, Rania
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Women’S Testimonies of the “Arab Uprisings:” Writing the Self and the City in Rebellion (2012-2018)\ Said, RaniaMoreira, Luiza
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State University of New York at Binghamton
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2020
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Ph.D.
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2020
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194 p.
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This dissertation studies the production of the self and the city in women’s testimonies of the Arab Uprisings (2011-2018). I look at the ways in which women intellectuals and activists from North Africa and West Asia understand the dynamics of margin and center from their position as urban dwellers in their home countries, in the diaspora, or in exile. Given the transnational nature of this testimonial movement, I selected works in Arabic, French, and English to be able to account for the movement’s linguistic and geographic diversity. The first chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the transformations of bourgeois secularist subjectivity and the decentralization of civil resistance in Je prendrai les armes s’il le faut: Tunisie mon combat pour la liberté by Dalila Ben Mbarek Msaddek and Valérie Urman. The second chapter studies Ahdaf Soueif’s diasporic nostalgia and the mythologization of Cairo and Tahrir Square in the memoir Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed (2014). The third chapter analyzes Samar Yazbek’s testimonial project by focusing on the author’s production of her exilic self as a dissident feminist and secular intellectual in relation to the besieged cities of Syria. I demonstrate that while trauma and nostalgia shape the narrative representation of Tunis, Cairo, Damascus, and their peripheries, the authorial project in all these texts remains essentially concerned with re-writing the figure of the Arab intellectual, from below and from a more gender-conscious perspective.
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Middle Eastern literature
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Modern literature
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Womens studies
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Moreira, Luiza
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State University of New York at Binghamton
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