文档介绍：AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES
EDITED, TRANSLATED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
Dalya Cohen-Mor
Arab Women Writers
SUNY series, Women Writers in Translation
Marilyn Gaddis Rose, editor
Arab Women Writers
An Anthology of Short Stories
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Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by
Dalya Cohen-Mor
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arab women writers : an anthology of short stories / collected, translated,
and introduced by Dalya Cohen-Mor.
p. cm. —(SUNY series, women writers in translation)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7914-6419-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) —
ISBN 0-7914-6420-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Short stories, Arabic—Translations into English. 2. Arabic fiction—Women
authors—Translations into English. I. Cohen-Mor, Dalya II. Series.
PJ7694. E8A719 2005
′301089287—dc22 2004015114
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To Michael, my life’panion
Contents
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Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction 1
Arab Women Writers: A Brief Sketch 3
Thematic Aspects 7
Modes of Writing 18
Arab Women: Old Images, New Profiles 23
Part One Growing Up Female 29
That Summer Holiday Samiya At'ut (Palestine) 30
The Parting Gift Umayma al-Khamis (Saudi Arabia) 32
Let’s Play Doctor Nura Amin (Egypt) 38
In the Moonlig