Spaces of Liberation? Geo-Hermeneutical Reading of the New Women’s Novel in Jordan
Contemporary feminist novelists in Jordan are raising issues of emancipation, patriarchal society, violence against women and social attitudes in unaccustomed ways unknown earlier in the country. This is embedded within the political and socio-economic developments taking place in the country since...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Graduate Programme in International Strategic Studies (PPGEEI)
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Revista Conjuntura Austral |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/ConjunturaAustral/article/view/70806 |
| Summary: | Contemporary feminist novelists in Jordan are raising issues of emancipation, patriarchal society, violence against women and social attitudes in unaccustomed ways unknown earlier in the country. This is embedded within the political and socio-economic developments taking place in the country since 1990. The main aim of this scenario is to explore and to re-think the space-gender nexus in the new women’s novel using geo-hermeneutical approaches. |
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| ISSN: | 2178-8839 |