"Female Voices and Egyptian Independence provides a fascinating account of how British and Egyptian authors looked to creatively imagine marginalized voices in the context of colonial Egypt. Rich in contextual and historical detail, the book engagingly contends with the experience and aftermath of revolutionary culture." --Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester, UK.

"Rania Mahmoud offers an astute analysis of marginalized female characters in four seminal Arab and English novels. Her systematic reading uncovers hitherto under-evaluated voices, highlights their importance to the general architecture of the literary works, and convincingly manages to give them more space. A stimulating novel interpretation, with insightful discussions of the genre of the bildungsroman." --Dina Heshmat, Associate Professor, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.

"This engaging book seamlessly draws on the literary, the historical, and the political to empower silenced female voices in classical and contemporary fiction. Skillfully, Rania M. Mahmoud reconstructs fragmented narratives and provides fascinating insights into complex human responses to colonial violence and the exclusion built into the nation-building project in modern Egypt." --Hussam R. Ahmed, Professor, Carleton University, Canada.