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In the context of twenty-first century Arab uprisings, women invoke the complexity of their experiences as citizens, revolutionaries, women and writers through a range of narrative strategies. Autobiographical discourses that emerge as part of national revolutionary struggles make audible Arab women's voices, foregrounding women as active social and political agents and redefining conventions of self-representation and narration. Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance examines life narratives as sites for the articulation of resistance to interlocking power structures and sociocultural and representational norms. Looking comparatively at subgenres of memoir, auto-portrait, testimony, diary and digital life writing across different linguistic and national contexts, this book explores why resistance is important when writing about the self for Arab women and how it is articulated through experimental formal and thematic approaches to the autobiographical genre 4e de couverture

Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Translation Series Editor's Foreword Introduction ­ Arab Women's Life Writing and Resistance Literature: History, Theory and Context 1 Genre and Twentieth-­century National Struggles: Arab Women Write the Resistance 2 A Bricolage of Genre, a Montage of Selves: Autobiographical Subjectivity, Generic Experimentation and Representational Contestation 3 Shahādāt Nisāʼiyyah: Testimonial Life Writing, Accounts of Women's Resistance 4 Dissident Laughter: Diaries of National Struggles and the Aesthetics of Humour 5 Arab Women's Digital Life Writing: Resistance 2.0 Conclusion ­ Arab(ic) Resistance Non-­fiction: Critical Trajectories Bibliography Index