Quest for Identity and Individuality in Radaw Ashour's Granada

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Ali Hussein Najm
Dr. Md Sajidul Islam

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This paper discusses the concept of identity in Radwa Ashour's novel Granada. Ashour in this novel explores the suppress potential of her female characters to maintain their cultural and national identity in time of crises. In this novel Ashour presents both of Saleema and Maryama as active figures. Despite the oppression and the marginalization, they capable to engage in the social life and get things accomplished. Ashour in this novel exposes the hidden stories of these female characters, whose daily activities are quiet important to the function of the society. In this regard, I have use Judith butler's theory of feminism and the subversion of identity with references to Julia Krestiva's notion of semiotic approach and Paula Moya's notion of identity to analyze the characters of Saleema and Maryama in Ashour's novel Granada.

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Ali Hussein Najm, and Dr. Md Sajidul Islam. “Quest for Identity and Individuality in Radaw Ashour’s Granada”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 5, no. 6, Feb. 2021, pp. 39-52, doi:10.53032/TCL.2021.5.6.07.
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