2018
DOI: 10.1515/culture-2018-0007
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Feminism and Postmodernism in Kuwaiti Women’s Fiction: Four Novels by Fawziyya S. al-Sālim

Abstract: This article comparatively examines the first four novels of Fawziyya Shuwaysh al-Sālim (b. 1949): al-Shams madhbūḥa wa-l-layl maḥbūs (1997), al-Nuwākhidha (1998), Muzūn (2000), Ḥajar ʿalā ḥajar (2003). I argue that these novels reflect not only the stages of the author’s career as a novelist but also of the transition of Kuwaiti women’s fiction from the conventional to the postmodern narrative technique and discourse. Al-Sālim’s first and second novels typically reproduce-albeit subversively-the dominant lite… Show more

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“…I have demonstrated elsewhere how some contemporary female writers from the Arabian Gulf have moved away from the stereotypical outlook and landscape depicted in Banāt al-Riyād . to depicting the postmodern Gulf woman, who thinks and acts independently as a human being rather than just as a female who remains suppressed by patriarchal social dominance [31] (pp. [68][69][70].…”
Section: Love and Happy Marriages: Female Stereotypesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I have demonstrated elsewhere how some contemporary female writers from the Arabian Gulf have moved away from the stereotypical outlook and landscape depicted in Banāt al-Riyād . to depicting the postmodern Gulf woman, who thinks and acts independently as a human being rather than just as a female who remains suppressed by patriarchal social dominance [31] (pp. [68][69][70].…”
Section: Love and Happy Marriages: Female Stereotypesmentioning
confidence: 99%