Scholars of English literature present studies of Arab women's recent autobiographical writing in relation to cultural hybridity, transnationalism, communal identity, and the link between the personal and the political. Their topics include historicizing a Western obsession in Leila Ahmen's A Border Passage: From Cairo to America, Leila Abouzeid's Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman, and the trauma of imprisonment and exile. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)