Nawal El Saadawi

The Essential Nawal El Saadawi (eBook, ePUB)

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Redaktion: Newson-Horst, Doctor Adele

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are essential to anyone wishing to understand the contemporary Arab world. Her dissident voice has stayed as consistent in its critique of neo.imperialist international politics as it has in its denunciation of women's oppression, both in her native Egypt and in the wider world.

Saadawi is a figure of international significance, and her work has a central place in Arabic history and culture of the last half century. Featuring work never before translated into English, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawi's writing. From novellas and short stories to essays on politics, culture, religion and sex; from extensive interviews to her work as a dramatist; from poetry to autobiography, this book is essential for anyone wishing to gain a sense of the breadth of Saadawi's work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848139022
• Artikelnr.: 39066826

Autorenporträt

Nawal El Saadawi was an internationally renowned writer, novelist and fighter for women's rights both within Egypt and abroad.

Born in 1931, in a village outside Cairo, she wrote her first novel, Diary of a Child Called Souad, at the age of thirteen. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together. After graduating from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry, she practised as a medical doctor for two years.

From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked for the Egyptian government as Director General for Public Health Education. During this time, she studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master's degree in Public Health in 1966. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the government as a result of political pressure. The magazine Health, which she founded and had edited for more than three years, was closed down.

From 1973 to 1978 Saadawi worked at the High Institute of Literature and Science. It was at this time that she began to write, in works of fiction and non-fiction, the books on the oppression of Arab women for which she has become famous. Her most renowned novel, Woman at Point Zero, was published in Beirut in 1973. It was followed in 1976 by God Dies by the Nile and in 1977 by her study of Arab women, The Hidden Face of Eve.

In 1981 Nawal El Saadawi publicly criticized the one-party rule of President Anwar Sadat, and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned. She was released one month after Sadat's assassination. In 1982, she established the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, which was outlawed in 1991. For some years during the Mubarak regime, Saadawi lived in exile, teaching in universities in the USA and Europe, including Duke University and Washington State University. Saadawi returned to Egypt in 1996. In 2004 she presented herself as a candidate for the presidential elections in Egypt, with a platform of human rights, democracy and greater freedom for women. In July 2005, however, she was forced to withdraw her candidacy in the face of ongoing government persecution.

Nawal El Saadawi achieved widespread international recognition for her work. She held honorary doctorates from, among others, the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso as well as Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her many prizes and awards include the Premi Internacional Catalunya in 2003, the Council of Europe North-South Prize in 2004, the Women of the Year Award (UK) in 2011, the Sean MacBride Peace Prize (Ireland) in 2012, and the French National Order of Merit in 2013. Her books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide. They are taught in universities across the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface - Nawal El Saadawi Timeline Introduction - Adele
Newson-Horst Part I: Articles/Essays/Non-fictional Prose 1. How to Write
and Why 2. How to Fight Against the Postmodern Slave System 3. First Trip
Outside the Homeland 4. Introduction to The Hidden Face of Eve 5. The
Seventh International AWSA Conference 6. Women and the Poor 7. God Above,
Husband Below 8. The House of Desolation 9. The Streetwalker and the Woman
Writer 10. Muslim Women in the Market 11. Bodour 12. Writing and Freedom
13. The Three Universal Taboos: Sex, Religion, and Politics 14. Breeding
Terror or an Uncivilized Clash of Civilizations 15. Breeding Terror or an
Uncivilized Clash of Civilizations 16. Fear and Writing 17. Obama's Speech
in Cairo Part II: Fiction and Poetry 18. Death of an Ex-Minister 19. My
Ideal Mother 20. A Paper that was Never Presented for Publication 21.
Sixteen Short Poems 22. Inspired by the Summit Meeting with the Elite 23.
The Impact of Fanatic Religious Thought Part III: Drama 24. Twelve Women in
a Cell Part IV: Interviews and Criticism 25. Feminism in Egypt: A
Conversation with Nawal El Saadawi 26. Fed Up with Limited Thinking: An
Interview 27. Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi 28. Nawal El Saadawi's
Fall of the Imam: The Daughter of the Goddess of the Land Fells the Imam
and Rises Again Part V: Bibliographies 29. Bibliography of Book Length
Works 30. Bibliography of Interviews 31. Bibliography of Criticism