Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood
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Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1994, [1995].
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242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Main Library - Adult
BIO MERNISSI, F
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BIO MERNISSI, F
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Published
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1994, [1995].
Language
English
Lexile measure
1230

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A feminist in the Muslim world weaves her own memories with dreams of women who surround her in the courtyard of her childhood.
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Relates the story of a woman born in a harem in Morocco, growing up with wise, funny, individualistic women, and creating a fantasy world from sheer imagination because the outside world was inaccessible.
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Overview: "I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco ..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth-women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. Dreams of Trespass is the provocative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex in the recent Muslim world. In a book as evocative as anything found in A Thousand and One Nights, Mernissi, who was born in a harem in 1940 in Morocco, writes with great wit and color of the politics of seductions, of the harem as a metaphor, and of the world beyond--every woman's inaccessible obsession.
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