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" Gender Identities and Self-representations in Post-9/11 Global Arab and Muslim Women's Literature "
Alreshoud, Aishah Emad
Yang, Lingyan
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1051756
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TL50873
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Alreshoud, Aishah Emad
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Gender Identities and Self-representations in Post-9/11 Global Arab and Muslim Women's Literature\ Alreshoud, Aishah EmadYang, Lingyan
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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2019
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Ph.D.
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2019
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247 p.
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This dissertation aims to analyze Arab and Muslim women’s writings of resistance to Islamophobic, Orientalist and patriarchal narratives about their roles in domestic life and marriage, the veil, and definition of their identities in a post-9/11 world. Hegemonic and stereotypical narratives about Arab and Muslim women often show them as submissive, oppressed and voiceless. The dissertation analyzes six post-9/11 global women’s texts that reveal the voice of whom Spivak calls the “subaltern.” Arab and Muslim women around the world have often been marginalized by their own ethnic cultures while criticized and discriminated against by Western media and when out of their homelands. Inspired by the critical works of Arab, Arab American feminists, and postcolonial theorists, I analyze the intersections of the double-layered oppression of patriarchy and racism in selected global texts written by and about Arab and/or Muslim women. First, my dissertation discusses the theme of marriage by examining Muslim and Arab women’s freedom of choice or lack thereof and their treatments within their families. Second, I analyze implications of the veil and show how it affects women’s treatment outside of their homes. Lastly, I examine themes of identity, hybridity, home and belonging to show how Muslim and Arab women in diaspora define themselves and see the world. The major questions I ask are: How are Arab and Muslim women perceived and treated domestically and publicly by their own culture, Western culture, the media, and the politics in their homelands and around the world? What are the effects of Islamophobia, 9/11 and other events on Arab and Muslim women? And how do they define and represent themselves? My aim is to increase awareness about Muslim and Arab women writers’ efforts and activism in countering stereotypical narratives and to draw attention to their diversified struggles.
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American literature
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British Irish literature
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Womens studies
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Yang, Lingyan
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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