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AHDAF SOUEIF’IN ROMANI AISHA’DA FEMİNİST BİÇEMBİLİM

Year 2023, Volume: 33 Issue: 3, 1091 - 1103, 26.09.2023
https://doi.org/10.18069/firatsbed.1260193

Abstract

Anlamları ve bunların kabul edilen yorumlarını yapısökümüne uğratmak, biçembilimin birincil hedefleridir. Feminist üslup esas olarak, özellikle kadınları marjinalleştiren ve aşağılayan ataerkil normlarla ilgilenen feminist teorilere dayanmaktadır. Bu çalışma, ataerkil bir kültürde Arap kadınını betimleyen önemli eserlerden biri olan Ahdaf Soueif'in kısa öykü derlemesi Aisha'daki feminist söylemi incelemektedir. Asyalı kadınların zorlukları feminist kitap Aisha'da anlatılıyor. Feminist üslup bilimi, toplumsal cinsiyet konularını metinsel analizin merkezine koyarak, geleneksel üslup biliminin savunulamaz varsayımlarını teşhir eder. Bu feminist yaklaşım, dilbilimsel ve tematik eşitsizlikler de dahil olmak üzere çeşitli metinlerdeki toplumsal cinsiyet söylemlerini vurgular. Bunun ışığında, çalışma feminist üslubu açıklayacak, Ahdaf Soueif'in biyografisine kısa bir genel bakış sunacak ve Soueif'in hikayelerine feminist bir üslup yaklaşımı kullanacak. Yazar, dilin toplumsal cinsiyeti ele alış biçiminin ataerkil kültürü nasıl yansıttığını göstermeyi umuyor. Hikâyelerdeki cinsiyetçiliği ve ataerkil meseleleri ve kadınların yazma alışkanlıklarını erkeklerin yazma alışkanlıklarından ayırarak bakış açısının, failliğin, mecazın veya geçişliliğin açıkça toplumsal cinsiyete nasıl bağlandığını değerlendirmek için bu çalışma, feminist üslubu kullanarak öyküleri kelime/anahtarda analiz edecektir. ifade, cümle ve söylem düzeyi.

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FEMINIST STYLISTICS IN AHDAF SOUEIF’S AISHA

Year 2023, Volume: 33 Issue: 3, 1091 - 1103, 26.09.2023
https://doi.org/10.18069/firatsbed.1260193

Abstract

Deconstructing meanings and their accepted interpretations are the primary goals of stylistics. Feminist stylistics is mainly based on feminist theories, which are particularly interested in patriarchal norms that marginalize and degrade women. This study examines the feminist discourse in Ahdaf Soueif’s short story collection Aisha, which is one of the significant works portraying Arab women in a patriarchal culture. Asian women's difficulties are covered in the feminist book Aisha. By putting gender issues at the center of the textual analysis, feminist stylistics exposes the untenable assumptions of traditional stylistics. This feminist approach highlights gender discourses in various texts, including linguistic and thematic disparities. In light of this, the study will explain feminist stylistics, provide a brief overview of Ahdaf Soueif's biography, and use a feminist stylistic approach to Soueif's stories. The author hopes to demonstrate how language's treatment of gender reflects patriarchal culture. In order to evaluate sexism and patriarchal issues in the stories and how point of view, agency, metaphor, or transitivity are tied explicitly to gender by separating women's writing habits from men's writing, this study will use feminist stylistics to analyse the stories at word/phrase, sentence, and discourse level.

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Thanks to my Supervisor for her assistant to finish this work

References

  • Abdallah Rezk, W. (2019). Diaspora and Hybridity in Ahdaf Souif’s Aisha. مجلة کلية الأداب-جامعة السويس, 17(17), 1-40‎.‎
  • Arikan, S. (2016). Angela Carter’s the bloody chamber: A feminist stylistic approach. Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 26(2), 117-130.
  • Brahimi, S. (2022). Soueif’s Aisha: A Portrait of Memory, Time, and Liberation. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, 6 (4) 142-151. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol6no4.10.
  • Brown, S. (2017). Compelled to Narrate: Politics, Cairo and the Common Ground in Ahdaf Soueif’s Life Writing. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 39(39.2), 77-89.
  • Chambers, C. (2011). Ahdaf Soueif. British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, 245-256. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230343085_13.
  • D’Alessandro, S. (2007). The Stratheden and the negotiation of the East-West trajectory: identity and migration in Ahdaf Soueif’s “Aisha”. Università di Palermo, pp. 325-333.
  • El-Miniawi, N. (2016). Sexuality in Aisha: Short Stories Retelling Life Stories. Journal Fikr Wa Ibda’ 106(11), 93-118.
  • Lazar, M. M. (2007). Feminist critical discourse analysis: Articulating a feminist discourse praxis. Critical discourse studies, 4(2), 141-164.
  • Litosseliti, L. (2014). Gender and language theory and practice. Routledge, London.
  • Mills, S. (2008). Language and sexism. Cambridge University Press, U.S.
  • Mills, Sara. (1995). Feminist Stylistics. Routledge, London.
  • Montoro, R. (2017). Feminist stylistics. In The Routledge handbook of stylistics (pp. 346-379). Routledge, London & New York.
  • Nash, G. (2007). The Anglo-Arab encounter: Fiction and autobiography by Arab writers in English. Peter Lang.
  • Sanjakdar, G. M. (2015, January 1). Female images in Soueif’s fiction. Dialnet. Retrieved December 6, 2022, from https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=133321.
  • Soueif, A. (1983). Aisha. Jonathan Cape.
  • Soueif, A., & Massad, J. (1999). The politics of desire in the writings of Ahdaf Soueif. Journal of Palestine Studies, 28(4), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.2307/2538394.
  • Stockwell, P. (2020). Language and literature: Stylistics. The Handbook of English linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119540618.ch30.
  • Talbot, M. (1998). Language and Gender an Introduction. Polity Press, Ltd.
  • Wareing, S. (1994). And then he kissed her: The reclamation of female characters to submissive roles in contemporary fiction. In Feminist linguistics in literary criticism (pp. 117-136). DS Brewer.
  • Woldemariam, H. Z. (2018). Improving Sociolinguistic Competence (SC) through Feminist Stylistics (FS). Asian Journal of African Studies, (43), 31-81.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Stylistics and Textual Analysis
Journal Section Issue
Authors

Rana Aasadi 0000-0001-9293-1360

Publication Date September 26, 2023
Submission Date March 4, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023 Volume: 33 Issue: 3

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APA Aasadi, R. (2023). FEMINIST STYLISTICS IN AHDAF SOUEIF’S AISHA. Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 33(3), 1091-1103. https://doi.org/10.18069/firatsbed.1260193