Fadia Faqir's pillars of salt and Virginia Woolf's to the lighthouse : a socio-cultural perspective
Other Title(s)
رواية فاديا الفقير أعمدة الملح و رواية إلى المنارة لفرجينيا وولف من منظور اجتماعي-ثقافي
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
Comitee Members
Kayid, Isam Muhammad
Abu Hamdiyah, Zakariyya
University
Middle East University
Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of English
University Country
Jordan
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2015
English Abstract
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.
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
No. of Pages
82
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Abstract in Arabic.
Chapter One : Introduction.
Chapter Two : Review of related literature.
Chapter Three. Methods and Procedures
Chapter Four. Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Faqir’s Pillars of Salt
[Chapter Five] : Conclusion and recommendations.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Buaytil, Mahmud Salim. (2015). Fadia Faqir's pillars of salt and Virginia Woolf's to the lighthouse : a socio-cultural perspective. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-691944
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Buaytil, Mahmud Salim. Fadia Faqir's pillars of salt and Virginia Woolf's to the lighthouse : a socio-cultural perspective. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University. (2015).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-691944
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Buaytil, Mahmud Salim. (2015). Fadia Faqir's pillars of salt and Virginia Woolf's to the lighthouse : a socio-cultural perspective. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-691944
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-691944
