الاستشراق و الاستغراب في سرد ميرال الطحاوي من الخباء إلى بروكلين هايتس

Abstract EN

The Arab feminist narration has concerned with eastern life, and painted portraits of a masculine-dominated Arab society in which female is excluded, and playing the victim role.

the Egyptian novelist, Miral el-Tahawi, was interested in the reality of Arab women, and tried to portray the social and cultural conditions that surround it and impede het freedom, so her writings were like a narrative project.

in them, she criticizes the harem society in the novel "al Khaba (the tent)", "gazelle tracks" and "the Arab girl" which is the image that intersects with of western orientalism arguments and its narrations about the life of the harem.

on one hand, Miral moves towards the west and tries to convey the image of the west through eastern eyes.

on the other hand criticizing the west and its material culture through "Brooklyn heights" novel, which stands on the border between two different civilizations and two opposing worlds, the world of east and west.

this research paper attempts to analyze the orientalist tendency in Miral al-Tahawy's narratives, and to criticize the occidental tendency in "Brooklyn heights" novel by portraying the lives of Arab refugees in America.