Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community

Name: Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community
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ISBN: 9780312219666

ISBN-10: 0312219660

ISBN-13: 9780312219666

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Mary Ann Fay, Mary Ann Fay

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Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 245
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144

List of Charts	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vi
Notes on Transliteration	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Critical Studies of Biography and Autobiography
Biography as History: The Exemplary Life of Khayr al-Din al-Ramli	p. 9
The Transmission of Knowledge and the Education of the 'Ulama in Late Sixteenth-Century Maghrib: A Study of the Biographical Dictionary of Muhammad ibn Maryam	p. 19
Biography, Autobiography, and Identity in Early Modern Damascus	p. 37
Infamous Women and Famous Wombs: Biography, Gender, and Islamist Concepts of Community in Contemporary Egypt	p. 51
Ideology, Identity, and Commitment in the Autobiography of Khalid Mohieddin	p. 71
Biography--History--Culture
Shawikar Qadin: Woman of Power and Influence in Ottoman Cairo	p. 95
Looking for the Modern: A Biography of an Iraqi Modernist	p. 109
The Worlds of George Antonius: Identity, Culture, and the Making of an Anglo-Arab in the Pre--World War II Middle East	p. 125
Kulthum Auda: The Forgotten Palestinian Ethnographer	p. 139
Biography and the Anthropological Encounter
Between Political Epochs and Personal Lives: Formative Experiences of Egyptian Women Activists	p. 155
Ambiguous Borders, Ambivalent Subjects: Being Sudanese in Twentieth-Century Egypt	p. 177
Reflections on Writing Auto/Biographically
The Question of Writing Premodern Biographies of the Middle East	p. 191
Writing Culture, Writing Lives: Fictional Boundaries	p. 201
"To Create and in Creating To Be Created:" Reflections on the Mixing of Fiction and Memoir in Lina: A Portrait of a Damascene Girl and The House on Arnus Square	p. 215
Select Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 241
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