A Feministic Criticism of the Short Story: “A Man in the Alley” from the Book : “ Your Eyes Are My Fate”by Ghada al-Saman.

زبان و ادبیات عربی

Article 4, Volume 5, Issue 8, August 2013   

Document Type: research article

DOI: 10.22067/jall.v5i8.24196

Authors

Ovais Mohammadi^* ; Zeinab Sadeghi

Abstract

Ghada al-Saman has been affected in her short story:” A Man in the Alley” by the theory of some feminist writers like Simone de Beauvoir. Using the existentialistic- feministic theory of de Beauvoir,she tried to highlight the idea of women’s oppression through cultures during time long before its explanation by de Beauvoir. This short story depicts her endeavor for deconstructing the values of a patriarchal society .Denying the characteristics such as passiveness and otherness and anti-rationalism in women’s side in her short story, she insists on her own language, the most obvious characteristic of which is the extensive use of imaginary and poetic symbols.

Keywords

Ghada al-Saman; feministic criticism; Women; passiveness