Fadia Faqir's pillars of salt and Virginia Woolf's to the lighthouse : a socio-cultural perspective

العناوين الأخرى

رواية فاديا الفقير أعمدة الملح و رواية إلى المنارة لفرجينيا وولف من منظور اجتماعي-ثقافي

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Buaytil, Mahmud Salim

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Yusuf, Tawfiq Ibrahim

أعضاء اللجنة

Kayid, Isam Muhammad
Abu Hamdiyah, Zakariyya

الجامعة

جامعة الشرق الأوسط

الكلية

كلية الآداب و العلوم

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2015

الملخص الإنجليزي

This thesis introduces a socio-cultural critical study of Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Faqir’s Pillars of Salt utilizing culturalism, feminism, post-colonialism, and comparative theory.

It explores the cultural aspects and social conventions of the West and the East.

It also examines the social relationships in both the Arab culture and the Western culture by focusing on gender roles within the society.

Although the novels are set in two different cultures, yet some common similarities have been found.

The social status of woman is investigated in both different cultural spheres.

The patriarchal Western society portrayed in To the Lighthouse shares great deal of similarities with the Arab male-dominated society in Pillars of Salt.

In both societies woman suffers from oppression and subjugation practiced by male hegemony which is supported by the cultural norms of the society.

The rebellious women against the inequity and subjugation of male dominated societies are equally suppressed by the social institutions and cultural conventions in both the Western and the Eastern communities equally.

Class conflict is one of social aspects that both cultures share in the To the Lighthouse and Pillars of Salt.

Virginia Woolf and Fadia Faqir have contributed remarkably in modernizing English novel.

Woolf developed stream-of-consciousness technique and supported feminist movement in that time.

Fadia Faqir added an innovation to the narrative technique of the novel as she utilizes the Arabic narrative technique and Arabizes the language of the novel.

This study concludes that the two novels present identical stereotype images of the superior man and the inferior woman in the Western and the Eastern cultures.

التخصصات الرئيسية

اللغات والآداب المقارنة

عدد الصفحات

82

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-691944