Joumana Haddad is angry about the way Arab women are portrayed in the West. In I Killed Scheherazade she challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East and speaks of her own intellectual development and the liberating impact of literature on her life. Fiery and candid, this is a provocative exploration of what it means to be an Arab woman today.
Innehållsförteckning
Contents: Note to the Reader 11 Foreword by Etel Adnan 13 To Start With – On camels, belly dancing, schizophrenia and other pseudo-disasters 17 1. An Arab Woman Reading the Marquis de Sade 33 11. An Arab Woman Not Belonging Anywhere 49 111. An Arab Woman Writing Erotic Poetry 63 1v. An Arab Woman Creating a Magazine about the Body 79 v. An Arab Woman Redefining Her Womanhood 95 v1. An Arab Woman Unafraid of Provoking Allah 113 v11. An Arab Woman Living and Saying No 127 To Start Again – Am I really an ’Arab woman’? 137 Post-Partum: I Killed Scheherazade 141 The Poet’s Chapter: Attempt at an Autobiography 149 Acknowledgments 159
Om författaren
Born in 1970 in Beirut, Joumana Haddad is an award-winning poet, literary translator, magazine publisher and journalist. Joumana is the cultural editor for the an-Nahar newspaper and in 2008 launched the Arab world’s first erotic cultural magazine, Jasad (Body). Joumana was chosen as one of the best Arab authors under 39 in 2009 (Beirut39). She lives in Lebanon with her two sons.
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