Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam.(Book review)

Publication: Research in African Literatures

Publication Date: 22-JUN-08

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Liberating Shahrazad:

Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam

BY SUZANNE GAUCH

Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007.

xx + 175 pp. ISBN 0-8166-4883-2 paper.

Suzanne Gauch takes the figure of Shahrazad, the storyteller from The Thousand and One Nights, as her point of departure for an exploration of Maghrebian fiction and film that either take up Shahrazad explicitly or exhibit related characteristics. Her corpus logically revolves around works by Fatima Mernissi, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia...

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