2016
DOI: 10.17265/1539-8072/2016.05.007
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Postcolonialism Revisited: Representations of the Subaltern in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt

Abstract: Postcolonial theory is a well-established critical approach that addresses issues such as the quest for identity, the significance of land, homelessness, resistance, and the encounter between the colonized and the colonizers. This paper examines the postcolonial elements utilized by the Anglo-Jordanian novelist Fadia Faqir in her novel Pillars of Salt. It discusses the novel's themes and techniques associated with postcolonialism as a literary theory and as a critical approach. Being a postcolonial text, the n… Show more

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“…When his plan fails, he then sends her to a mental hospital because she is seen as a "disobedient girl" (Faqir, 1997, p. 165). Yousef (2016) agrees that the novel shows oppressed women in a patriarchal Arab community and links it to colonialism -a notion supported by the novel as wellsuggesting that both patriarchal communities and patriarchal colonialism cooperate to subjugate women.…”
Section: B the Representation Of Women In Faqir's Pillars Of Saltmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…When his plan fails, he then sends her to a mental hospital because she is seen as a "disobedient girl" (Faqir, 1997, p. 165). Yousef (2016) agrees that the novel shows oppressed women in a patriarchal Arab community and links it to colonialism -a notion supported by the novel as wellsuggesting that both patriarchal communities and patriarchal colonialism cooperate to subjugate women.…”
Section: B the Representation Of Women In Faqir's Pillars Of Saltmentioning
confidence: 83%