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Freedom and unfreedom in the literature of the Iranian and Arab diaspora
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Bibizadeh, Roxanne Ellen (2019) Freedom and unfreedom in the literature of the Iranian and Arab diaspora. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis seeks to interrogate the concept of freedom, a vital issue in contemporary feminist scholarship surrounding women’s equality. The main contribution of this thesis is to identify the ways in which diasporic Iranian and Arab writers are challenging the binary construct of “Western” secular freedom versus the unfreedom of Islam, in order to offer alternative ways of pursuing and obtaining freedom. There is a pressing need to reconfigure the dynamic relationship between Islam, feminism and secularism, terms that are conventionally considered incompatible. I argue that the texts in this thesis explore the convergences and divergences between these terms through the writer’s or their protagonist’s quest for freedom. Each chapter will focus on how the writers resist or attempt to mobilise their identification with Islam, including whether they are successful at reimagining what it means to assert freedom, to redefine choice, and avoid their agency becoming a commodity. This thesis offers an original contribution to the conceptualisation of freedom within literature of the Iranian and Arab diaspora by drawing on three key theoretical frameworks: feminism, international human rights law and philosophies of freedom.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PJ Semitic | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Arabs in literature, Feminist fiction, Arabic -- History and criticism, Arabic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Freedom in literature, Feminism and literature -- Iran | ||||
| Official Date: | 29 October 2019 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Mukherjee, Pablo, Varma, Rashmi | ||||
| Extent: | 298 leaves : illustrations | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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