Trauma narratives in muslim women's autobiographies : a study of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Tehmina Durrani's My Feudal Lord /
As a literary genre, autobiography is not generally regarded as an account of factual truth. This is because autobiographers employ creative and imaginative talents while narrating their life story and experiences. Moreover, their accounts are also tempered by the market demand and by the wishes of...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Kuala Lumpur :
2013
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| Online Access: | http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/7214 |
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| Summary: | As a literary genre, autobiography is not generally regarded as an account of factual truth. This is because autobiographers employ creative and imaginative talents while narrating their life story and experiences. Moreover, their accounts are also tempered by the market demand and by the wishes of the publishers. Therefore, readers do need to treat autobiographies with a grain of salt and analyse elements of exaggeration, fantasy and gross generalisations in the context of the societies in which they are set. Keeping this perspective in mind, this thesis will examine Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Tehmina Durrani's My Feudal Lord and compare their representations of Islam and Muslim women. The thesis will investigate if they replicate Western Orientalist perspectives in their representation of Islam and Muslim women. At a time when Muslim women, especially those from Pakistan and Iran, are receiving negative media coverage on a regular basis, it is important to look at the autobiographers' narratives objectively, beyond the conventional neo-Orientalist portrayal by both Western and non-Western writers. Accordingly, this study aims to evaluate Reading Lolita in Tehran and My Feudal Lord in the light of autobiographical criticism, particularly in regards to the depiction of Pakistani and Iranian Muslim women's gendered experiences. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 128 leaves ; 30cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-128). |