Female Identity And Conflict In The Writings Of Alice Walker And Hanan Al-shaykh

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ادب

الملخص

Every culture contains a political, social, religious and economic conflict that transforms any woman's life into a quest where she must answer difficult questions. Who am I? What do I want to be? Where do I fit in society?How can I exercise my freedom without finding myself in conflict with my culture and my traditions? This thesis makes a serious attempt to seek answers for such perplexing challenging questions. This work constitutes a comparative analysis of two novels, namely Alice Walker's Meridian, (1976) andHanan Al Shaykh's Hikayat Zahra, (1980, a.k.a. The Story of Zahra). The analysis focuses on the interplay of the search for identity in times of strife, social conflict, and war. The work relies on a postmodern analytic approach.Within the analysis, two dimensions are given particular emphasis. The first dimension discusses the ways in which social conflict and war influence the literature itself. The second dimension examines the writers' usage of the two main characters –Zahra and Meridian -to reflecttheir experiences and lives. Both writers write in times of conflict. Meridianis set within the context of the American Civil Rights Movement, while Hikayat Zahrais narrated at the time of the Lebanese Civil War. External disorder and instability allowthe two writers to formulate self-reflecting, archetypal characters that are borne into chaos and conflict. The conflict itself is two-dimensional, involving political conflict (unrest and war) and social conflict (women's struggle against patriarchy and restrictive gender-defined roles). Within this environment, the two heroines –Meridian and Zahra -seek self-realization, independence, and fulfillment based on their needs and their free-will.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

04c64723-3e20-4668-bb07-ac82e7076821

رقم العقد

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نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

pdf text

أسماء الملفات

1697030_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ترجمة العنوان

هوية الإناث والصراع في كتابات أليس ووكر وحنان الشيخ

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Female Identity And Conflict In The Writings Of Alice Walker And Hanan Al-shaykh

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

محمد الدجاني

الإعداد

بيان سميح سليم شبيب

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية