Hisland: Adventures in Ac-Ac-ademe

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State University of New York Press, Jan 20, 1999 - Fiction - 186 pages
Hisland takes place in a fictional universe--the Islands of Ac-Ac, whose pride and joy is the educational institution of Ac-Ac U. Into this traditionally male world fall the narrator and her feline companion. Their attempted integration into this dystopian world leads the reader on a self-conscious and role-questioning journey.
 

Contents

In Which MM Arrives at AcAc
9
In Which MM Gets a Lecture on Academic Hierarchies
15
In Which MM Gets Her First Introduction to DULL
21
In Which MM Attends the Open Faculty Meeting
27
In Which MM Participates in the Induction into
33
In Which MM Feels OverReceived
43
In Which MM Goes through the Faculty List at DULL
49
In Which MM Takes Steps to Set Up the Legendary
57
In Which MM Introduces S P T Directly to
73
Woman at AcAc U
127
In Which MM Hands the Manuscript to S P T
167
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas is The Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities at Indiana University. She is the author of several books, including Structures of Avarice: The Bukhala' in Medieval Arabic Literature; Blindness and Autobiography: al-Ayyam of Taha Husayn; Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing; and Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics; and co-author (with A. Douglas) of Arab Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture.

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