Artikel
Obedient and resistant : Afghanistani women in Maryam Mahboob's short stories
Verfasst von:
Bezhan, Faridullah
in:
Women's studies international forum
2008
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Heft:
5
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373 - 382 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Bezhan, Faridullah |
| In: | Women's studies international forum |
| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Heft: | 5 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article focuses on Maryam Mahboob's short stories, in which the voice of Afghanistani women from different social levels, their oppression, their sufferings and their need for change, and their rebellion and empowerment have found representation. Mahboob portrays ordinary women who under severe socio/political and cultural pressures eventually rebel; some achieve freedom while others do not. What marks their lives is not their subordination or oppression, but the way they deal with these problems and their efforts to overcome them. In order to surmount issues related to their gender, Mahboob's female characters use all possible methods, from everyday bodily actions to direct confrontation. This article explores different aspects of Afghanistani women's lives, their suffering, struggle and rebellion as depicted in Mahboob's short stories by focusing in particular on issues such as women and rebellion, women, tradition and modernity, women and Islam, mother and daughter relationships, women and the home, women in diaspora, and power struggles and the female body. | |
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| Literaturverz. S. 382 | |
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