Date of Award
10-1-2019
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
Keywords
feminist, life writing, narratives, Orientalist discourse, postcolonial theory, Saudi Woman
Supervisor
Jane Ku
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
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Abstract
This thesis relies on feminist and postcolonial theory, to explore through life writing: I Tear the Burqa ... I See, by Huda Al-Daghfaq (2011); Memoirs of a Saudi Woman, by Samia Al-Amoudi (2015); Past, Single, Masculine, by Omaima Al-Khamis (2011); and Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, by Manal Al-Sharif (2017) how Saudi women constructed themselves and deployed their right to speak. I explore the narratives that they employed to justify their writing and their perspectives and the different types of authority they used to give themselves the right to speak out. Through these texts, I argue that Orientalist discourse is not simply internalized; rather, these women positioned themselves in and used Orientalist framework to interpret or make claims to speak. In doing so, they reproduce Orientalism but also reframes it.
Recommended Citation
Alharbi, Mona Muslih, "Listening To Saudi Women’s Voices In Their Life Writing" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 8135.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/8135