Arab, Muslim, Woman ― Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film

Moore (English, Lancaster U., UK) conducts readings of postcolonial feminist creative texts from a range of genres and media by Arab women from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. She focuses on the way the women foreground counter-hegemonic perspectives of Arab, Muslim, and female identity and also explores the ways they problematize their own acts of speaking and looking. The creators she examines include Huda Shaarawi, Fettouma Touati, Malika Mokeddem, Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar, Houria Niati, Leila Abouzeid, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Moufida Tlatli, Raja Amari, Nina Bouraoui, Fadia Faqir, Fadwa Tuqan, Raymonda Tawil, Fatima Mernissi, Farida Ben Lyazid, Zineb Sedira, Mona Hatoum,, and Ahdaf Soueif. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lindsey Moore is Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, where she teaches postcolonial literatures, women’s writing, and literary theory. She has published articles on representations of Arab and Muslim women and on Arab women’s writing.