Women writing in Cairo. Midlife, self-care, and the informal world of literature

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378009%3A_____%2F23%3A00583014" target="_blank" >RIV/68378009:_____/23:00583014 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0351042" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0351042</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815483" target="_blank" >10.1215/15525864-10815483</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Women writing in Cairo. Midlife, self-care, and the informal world of literature

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

While literature produced by Arab women has received sustained academic attention, little commentary exists on the way fiction writing is interspersed with their ordinary lives defined by domesticity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2020 in Cairo, this article explores fiction writing as a powerful means of midlife self-reinvention among Cairene women. It considers their pursuit of literary careers in light of the recent opening of Egyptian literary markets to new writing publics and as part of women’s midlife transition, defined by their emancipation from outdated versions of their gendered selves. Viewing writing as an embodied practice of self-care, the article argues that fiction provides individuals with an “elsewhere” in which they can escape their rigid selves and reimagine their existence.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Women writing in Cairo. Midlife, self-care, and the informal world of literature

Popis výsledku anglicky

While literature produced by Arab women has received sustained academic attention, little commentary exists on the way fiction writing is interspersed with their ordinary lives defined by domesticity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2020 in Cairo, this article explores fiction writing as a powerful means of midlife self-reinvention among Cairene women. It considers their pursuit of literary careers in light of the recent opening of Egyptian literary markets to new writing publics and as part of women’s midlife transition, defined by their emancipation from outdated versions of their gendered selves. Viewing writing as an embodied practice of self-care, the article argues that fiction provides individuals with an “elsewhere” in which they can escape their rigid selves and reimagine their existence.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-07353S" target="_blank" >GA23-07353S: Způsoby literární profesionalizace v Egyptě ve 21. století</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Middle East Womens Studies

ISSN

1552-5864

e-ISSN

1558-9579

Svazek periodika

19

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

317-336

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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