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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 4(4), pp. 73-75, April, 2016 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2016.036
Review paper
A Woman First and Foremost: Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass
1G.Sankar and 2Neha Jain Karim
1Assistant Professor, Department of English, SVS College of Engineering Ciombatore-Tamilnadu, India -641032. E-mail: vijaya.sankar028@gmail.com 2Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi, Delhi-India. E-mail: nehajain84@gmail.com
Accepted 30 May 2016
In reading
Dreams of Trespass through the lens of Simone De Beauvoir, the reader
can interpret the “transitional” generation of women’s recognition of
their own powerlessness as their recognition of womanhood: they are
forced to be women first and foremost, as opposed to being individuals
first, a luxury reserved for men. The novel illustrates the radical
change in Moroccan culture through three generations of women in a
harem: the traditionalist older generation, the modern generation of
children, and the aforementioned “transitional” generation of women, who
are aware of their low status as women, but are still unable to break
out of the constraints of tradition, even though they do not benefit
from it. The latter generation, exhibited with the characters such as
the narrators’ mother, Aunt Habiba, and Chama, have to be continuously
conscious of their womanhood, and by proxy powerlessness, however they
cannot escape their position, which allows only for liberation through
freedom of thought. Cite This Article As: Sankar G, Karim NJ (2016). A Woman First and Foremost: Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 4(4): 73-75
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