Memoirs from the Women's Prison - (Literature of the Middle East) by Nawal El Saadawi (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"If Kafka had been a feminist, his prisoner might have had Nawal el Sa'adawi's feistiness, maybe, like her, he would have hoed a prison garden, led veiled and unveiled cellmates in rebellious calisthenics, strategized with a murderess to foil state illogic. This book gives me hope, even makes me laugh."--Cynthia Enloe, author of "The Morning After"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Education in Cairo, she was summarily dismissed from her post in 1972 for her political writing and activities. In 1981 she was imprisoned by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State" and was not released until after his assassination.<br /><br /><i>Memoirs from the Women's Prison</i> offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and fascinating insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamic revivalists, forged alliances to demand better conditions and to maintain their sanity in the confines of their cramped cell.<br /><br />Saadawi's haunting prose makes <i>Memoirs</i> an important work of twentieth-century literature. Recognized as a classic of prison writing, it touches all who are concerned with political oppression, intellectual freedom, and personal dignity.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>If Kafka had been a feminist, his prisoner might have had Nawal el Sa'adawi's feistiness, maybe, like her, he would have hoed a prison garden, led veiled and unveiled cellmates in rebellious calisthenics, strategized with a murderess to foil state illogic. This book gives me hope, even makes me laugh.--Cynthia Enloe, author of <i>The Morning After</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Lively, touching, and highly readable, making us relive with the author the shock of arrest, the dirt and horror of jail, and the nagging uncertainty about when or whether she would be released."--"The Middle East<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nawal El Saadawi</b> is an Egyptian feminist, socialist, medical doctor, novelist, and author of a classic work on women in Islam, <i>The Hidden Face of Eve</i> (1982). She presently teaches at Duke University. <b>Marilyn Booth</b> is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Illinois and a freelance translator. Her recent translations include <i>Stories by Egyptian Women: My Grandmother's Cactus</i>.
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