Male Domination, Female Revolt (Women and Gender: the Middle by Ishaq Tijani
By Ishaq Tijani
This ebook investigates a variety of kinds of women's resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women's fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary concept, it heavily analyses chosen texts (published among 1953 and 2000), which mirror the consequences of patriarchal tradition and culture on race, category, and gender family members in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf zone ordinarily. It argues that the chosen texts painting the pre-oil generations of Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women--born prior to or within the first 1/2 the 20th century--as resistant and/or progressive figures, opposite to the typical thought in their stereotypical passivity and submissiveness. This publication demonstrates how Kuwaiti girls writers have used literature to paintings for, and give a contribution to, social swap.
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39 Connected to the role of the print media was that of the printing and publishing companies. One of the most famous privately-owned Kuwaiti publishing companies, which has been facilitating the publication and distribution of fictional works in Kuwait, is al-Rubayʿān. 40 Whereas most of the literary clubs of the formative period have ceased to exist, the Kuwaiti Writers’ Association continues to function and attract membership up to the present day. It is unlike those socio-cultural and literary clubs that had existed before it for which creative writing was either of secondary importance, or their members were amateur writers.
15 Regrettably, Adab al-marʾa fī 11 On the establishment of this magazine and its roles in the rise of Kuwaiti feminism, see ‘First Kuwaiti Women’s Day Planning Committee’, op. , p. 32. com/arwg/InformationCenter/ (information retrieved on 22 April, 2008). 12 On the life and works of Hidāya al-Sālim up to 1996, see Laylā M. Ṣāliḥ, Udabāʾ wa-adībāt al-Kuwayt (Kuwait: The Kuwaiti Writers’ Association Press, 1996), pp. 78–82. php (at the homepage click on dhākirat al-shiʿr, then, al-Kuwayt, and then, Tarājum al-udabāʾ al-Kuwaytiyyīn [The Biographies of Kuwaiti Writers]).
The significance of “Laylat al-iqtirāʿ” as a feminist text lies in its reflection of Kuwaiti women’s preparedness to seek a change in their ‘second-class’ status. This is implied at the end of the story, when the husband loses in the election in spite of his aptitude and competence. The man decides to go into self-exile away from the “uncivilized, third 42 43 Badran and cooke, op. , p. xviii. I acknowledge Najma Idrīs’ analysis of this story in Idrīs, op. , pp. 98–99. the kuwaiti female literary tradition 35 world” country (Kuwait).