Echoes of Virginia Woolf in the Middle East and North Africa

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ABSTRACT

This study explains that situation presents for some complexity because it referees to different levels, all of which are given off to recount the work of painters which women, despite being produced different times and contexts in geographically distant such entre them, they share biographical certain circumstances. All in all, we here link here to all the limitations that they found in their respective artistic paths; it means algorithms, exposing their lives, something crucial in the path taken by each of them. To this purpose we find appropriate the feminist theory. Which theory is now plural, heterogeneous, eleven has exceeded the monolithic scheme Eurocentric, new feminism of the initial codes and change the hegemonic discourse. Opens the way for minorities in particular, we are interested in highlighting the importance of autobiography to marginalized legitimize spaces, mostly in the domestic field. What we want, taking into account diversity, is to meet the specific testimony to trace the traits that unified the experience of Middle East and South Africa.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

Background1

Research questions3

CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY4

Research Design4

Literature Search5

CHAPTER 3: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Virginia Woolf short story and coded lesbian6

Nawal El Saadawi9

Middle East and Virginia Woolf10

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION20

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION24

WORKS CITED27

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background

History shows these women in the Code of Virginia Woolf's characterization appears as a kind of women, with different inheritance rights over other women, who were probably intended for a role of priestesses, they could have one or more wives, and the possibility of adopting children. Lesbianism has suffered historically different treatment with respect to the times; there have been places where it was fully accepted as certain regions of Middle East. 

In certain regions of North Africa, particularly in places far removed from "civilization" homosexual relations were considered common, rescued these stories, through oral transmission, stories, proverbs, fables and songs, and are also examples of the existence of lesbianism for isolated communities. The existence of loving relationships between women was normal practice in regions such as Cabiria, hard accessed areas where the rule of law, and this was not taken into account too. In these mountainous areas and wild, living the "sbraie", women who had no contact with men. Theoretical framework

Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction during this time is frequently a closed and hopeless sealed space which is riddled with anxiety and social dislocation. Although Welty was enraptured with the technical achievements of Virginia Woolf's short stories, she identified a perplexing ethical question: “As they ...