COUNTERING PREVAILING DISCOURSES WITH LITERARY CREATIVITY – CONTEMPORARY SAUDI WOMEN NOVELISTS’ DRIVE FOR CHANGE
COUNTERING PREVAILING DISCOURSES WITH LITERARY CREATIVITY – CONTEMPORARY SAUDI WOMEN NOVELISTS’ DRIVE FOR CHANGE
Author(s): Roswitha BadrySubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: Saudi women novelists; socio-political criticism; stereotyped images; discrimination; quest for autonomy; failures of modernity;
Summary/Abstract: This paper provides an overview of a sample of novels by contemporary Saudi women authors published in the first decade of the 2000s in order to demonstrate to what extent this kind of fiction addresses taboo subjects and thereby not only challenges prevailing gender discourses maintained by the religious-political establishment with the aim of pushing for reform in the absence of independent civil society organizations, but also counters Western and Eastern distorted, stereotyped images of “the Arab woman”.
Journal: Synergy
- Issue Year: 14/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 100-117
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English