VOlUME 05 ISSUE 05 MAY 2022
Dr. Hanan Bishara
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ABSTRACT
The literary movement in the Gulf remained for several decades without feminist creativity till the end of the twentieth century nearly, when a lot of cultural, educational, and intellectual changes and the social transformations were devoted to raising the social awareness of the significance of acknowledgment of the women as a free creative entity.
Probably the reasons for the delay in the appearance of the play and short story that are written by the Gulf woman in general, compared to their Arab counterparts in Egypt, Syria, and Morocco are attributed to the conservative culture. It deserves mentioning, too, that despite the 'fear from the other', the contemporary Saʿūdi novel witnesses a big noticeable boom that is represented in the plethora of the novel output and diversity of the directions of the women writers and their schools.
The Saʿūdi woman's novel managed to break the prevailing traditional look of the Saʿūdi society about the woman when the Saʿūdi woman found a good outlet in the novel, and consequently, the novel was formulated as a broad and baggy literary system for the Saʿūdi woman. The Internet also had a strong impact on the emergence of the voice of the Saʿūdi female. Therefore, the novels that appeared varied between boldness and balance, and between what is considered a scandalous excess that can be called 'release' or 'venting out pressure' or 'de-frustration' (faḍfaḍa).
The Saʿūdi women writers are interested in introducing the issues of the woman in a realistic way through their works through which these women writers take confident steps, and thus, they started introducing distinguished works that are received with Arab, regional and international welcome. One of these writers is Rajāʾ al-Ṣāniʿ, whose novel Banāt al-Riyāḍ is dealt with in this study as a representative sample of the bold novels.
KEYWORDS:epic and history, moral research and Sufism, collective concerns, hijab, the Self and the Other, the spatial and temporal context, the cultural and social context.
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