Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
by:
Alifa Rifaat (author)
أليفة رفعت (author)
More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society. Her writing articulates a subtle revolt against, and a sympathetic insight into, the place of women in the...
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More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society. Her writing articulates a subtle revolt against, and a sympathetic insight into, the place of women in the essentially male-dominated Islamic environment. Change, development, and understanding
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780435909123 (0435909126)
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Pages no: 126
Edition language: English
Category:
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Read For School,
Anthologies,
Feminism,
Collections,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Egypt,
African Literature,
Fiction
This is a collection of short stories, that are by and large short, set in Egypt (mostly Cairo), and told from the viewpoint of women. To say that Rifaat is a feminist, at least in the board Western use of the term wouldn’t quite be right. The stories are not advocating women moving out of the hou...
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