Dreams of trespass
tales of a harem girlhood
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Publication
1994 - Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
60,500 words, Guess
Page Count
242 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1428303M
- ISBN-100201626497
- OCLC Control Number29522491
- OCLC Control Number62170090
- OCLC Control Numberdreamsoftrespass00mern
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number93039523
- Goodreads386703
- LibraryThing54836
Classifications
- DDC964/.0082
- LCCCT2678.M47 A3 1994
Description
"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative. With a magical tale-spinner's words, this world-renowned scholar, one of the most eloquent voices of feminism in the Muslim world, weaves her own memories with dreams and fantasies of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her childhood. It is the magic of recreating a world of one's own, navigating beyond the frontiers, that Mernissi describes with great wit and color. In a book as evocative as anything found in A Thousand and One Nights, she writes of the politics of seduction and the harem as metaphor. Peopled with marvelous, wise, and funny women - all individualists - Dreams of Trespass is a provocative book whose rewards go far.
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