Literary Autobiography and Subject Formation A Comparative Study of Mona Enamouri's a Chat Upon Thames and Elif Shafak's Black Milk

The two novels, Mona Enamouri's A Chat Upon Thames (2014) and Elif Shafak's Black Milk (2007), are autobiographical writings that depict the process of self-representation revealing a postmodern feminist interest in subject formation. Enamouri, on one hand, reflects on the self between pla...

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Veröffentlicht in:Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyat Jg. 2020; H. 25; S. 1 - 30
1. Verfasser: Alakhdar, Ghada Mohamad Ali Hassan
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Arabisch
Englisch
Veröffentlicht: مصر جامعة القاهرة - فرع الخرطوم - كلية الآداب 2020
جامعة القاهرة، كلية الأداب-فرع الخرطوم
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أدب المرأة
الأعمال الأدبية
الجوانب النفسية
الروايات
السيرة الذاتية
النقد النسوي
النموري، منى
رواية ثرثرة فوق نهر التايمز
رواية حليب أسود
شفق، أليف
ISSN:2536-9555, 2682-4582
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Zusammenfassung:The two novels, Mona Enamouri's A Chat Upon Thames (2014) and Elif Shafak's Black Milk (2007), are autobiographical writings that depict the process of self-representation revealing a postmodern feminist interest in subject formation. Enamouri, on one hand, reflects on the self between places and voices revealing a construction of awareness and self-definition in reaction to external experiences. Shafak, on the other, interweaves a number of questions on female body and identity within the contextual struggle of patriarchical society and intrinsic emotional-personality struggles. Pregnancy and post-partum depression are discussed in line with questions of what it means to have a family, construct a book and determine self-worth. Negotiating a range of feminist thematic preoccupations with voice, spaces, and body the two novels unravel the critical function of feminist autobiographies in constructing the self from "discordant" voices through a dynamic process of self-representation through creation.
ISSN:2536-9555
2682-4582
DOI:10.21608/jwadi.2020.84950