Date of Award
2009
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing
Keywords
Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Egypt, Lebanon
Supervisor
Richard Douglass-Chin
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
With renewed Western interest in the Middle East and Middle Eastern women since September 11th 2001 the discourse surrounding Arab women's oppression, and their supposed inability to resist that oppression on their own is becoming prevalent in the West. Through an examination of the novels of Nawal El Saadawi and Hanan Al-Shaykh, this paper seeks to reveal Arab women's writing as an avenue for resistance to male domination. I examine the issues of cultural translation and readership as well as the narrative strategies these authors utilize in their novels. I examine the body as sensual site of reclamation for Arab women. The paper also discusses the authors' criticisms of religious oppressions faced by women in both East and West, and how these oppressions can be linked.
Recommended Citation
Tag-El-Din, Donya, "Resisting patriarchy through literature: The feminist writings of Nawal El Saadawi and Hanan Al-Shaykh" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 8225.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/8225