Accordingly, this study aims to evaluate Reading Lolita in Tehran and My Feudal Lord in the light of autobiographical criticism, particularly in regards to the depiction of Pakistani and Iranian Muslim women’s gendered experiences. In addition to military (or eventually civil) service, a feudal lord was due additional feudal rights, called incidents. In fact, military service composed the core of the earliest relationship between a feudal lord and vassal in England. At a time when Muslim women, especially those from Pakistan and Iran, are receiving negative media coverage on a regular basis, it is important to look at the autobiographers’ narratives objectively, beyond the conventional neo-Orientalist portrayal by both Western and non-Western writers. feudal system William initially created concentrated heavily on vassals’ military obligation to their lords. The thesis will investigate if they replicate Western Orientalist perspectives in their representation of Islam and Muslim women. Keeping this perspective in mind, this thesis will examine Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord and compare their representations of Islam and Muslim women.

Like all women of her rank.PKR 250. Therefore, readers do need to treat autobiographies with a grain of salt and analyse elements of exaggeration, fantasy and gross generalisations in the context of the societies in which they are set. Born into one of Pakistans most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. Moreover, their accounts are also tempered by the market demand and by the wishes of the publishers.

This is because autobiographers employ creative and imaginative talents while narrating their life story and experiences. Kuala Lumpur : Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences,International Islamic University Malaysia, 2013Īs a literary genre, autobiography is not generally regarded as an account of factual truth.

Trauma narratives in muslim women`s autobiographies : a study of Azar Nafisi`s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Tehmina Durrani`s My Feudal Lord

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