Memory representations in the Arabic feminist novel : a focus on chosen narratives

Abstract EN

This paper study aims at uncovering the potential representations of memory in Sarah Haidar's The Horse Snort, Wafa Albueise's Hunger Has Other Faces, and Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Delicious as Parting.

All the tackled narratives are the products of contemporary female Arab novelists who worked on distinguishing the feminist discursive practices in literature through various themes that showed the position of women in the Arab world.

A thematic is adopted for this study.

The results revealed the occurrence of three different memory representations in the narratives.

Psychological trauma appeared in Haidar's novel; the childhood tales' memory was prominent in Abuleise's novel; and the sensory memory was distinguished in Mosteghanemi's novel.