The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives

The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives

Women’s life narratives

Middle East

female circumcision

gender

class

location

Islam

This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness play an important role in the writing of autobiographies. The focus is on showing how El Saadawi’s positioning as a feminist activist in Egypt and Ahmed’s location in the USA determine the texts’ themes and shape the construction of the autobiographical “I.”

Aouadi, Leila

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal; Vol. 16 No. 1 (2014); 35-50

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal; Tom 16 Nr 1 (2014); 35-50

2300-8695

1641-4233

Lodz University Press

2014-09-25

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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eng

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