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- catalog abstract ""Egyptian Women have been writing short stories since the 1890s and have made a special contribution to the development of the genre in the twentieth century. This collection presents eight short-story writers whose work began to emerge in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are exploring new themes, linguistic and symbolic fields, and literary structures. Some are trying to break down traditional genre boundaries, while others are exploring the specifically Arabic and Egyptian heritages of narrative and tradition."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "My grandmother's cactus.".
- catalog contributor b4211814.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description ""Egyptian Women have been writing short stories since the 1890s and have made a special contribution to the development of the genre in the twentieth century. This collection presents eight short-story writers whose work began to emerge in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are exploring new themes, linguistic and symbolic fields, and literary structures. Some are trying to break down traditional genre boundaries, while others are exploring the specifically Arabic and Egyptian heritages of narrative and tradition."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Woman on the grass ; Zeenat marches in the President's funeral / Salwa Bakr -- The sea knows ; The feast / Seham Bayomi -- The sleeping city ; When the chickens escaped / Mona Ragab -- A house for us ; The day the madness stopped ; Jonah of the sea / Etidal Osman -- Smoke ring ; A small world ; City of cardboard / Ibtihal Salem -- Dreaming of dishes ; Your face, my children and the olive branches ; The way to the Seventh / Neamat el-Biheiri -- Safsaafa and the general ; I saw the date-palms / Radwa Ashour -- Things cast down on the road are lost ; In search of a maze / Sahar Tawfiq.".
- catalog extent "ix, 165 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Stories by Egyptian women.".
- catalog identifier "0292708033 (pbk. : alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stories by Egyptian women.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng ara".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "Stories by Egyptian women.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt".
- catalog subject "892/.7301089287 20".
- catalog subject "Arabic fiction 20th century Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Arabic fiction Women authors Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "PJ8216 .S76 1993".
- catalog subject "Short stories, Arabic Egypt Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Short stories, Arabic Women authors Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Women Egypt Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Woman on the grass ; Zeenat marches in the President's funeral / Salwa Bakr -- The sea knows ; The feast / Seham Bayomi -- The sleeping city ; When the chickens escaped / Mona Ragab -- A house for us ; The day the madness stopped ; Jonah of the sea / Etidal Osman -- Smoke ring ; A small world ; City of cardboard / Ibtihal Salem -- Dreaming of dishes ; Your face, my children and the olive branches ; The way to the Seventh / Neamat el-Biheiri -- Safsaafa and the general ; I saw the date-palms / Radwa Ashour -- Things cast down on the road are lost ; In search of a maze / Sahar Tawfiq.".
- catalog title "My grandmother's cactus.".
- catalog title "Stories by Egyptian women : my grandmother's cactus / introduced and translated by Marilyn Booth.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".