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Item Deconstructing the Institution of Marriage in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1967) and Lynda Chouiten’ Une valse (2019)(2023) Missiouri, Lydia; Frihi, Naziha; Khirddine, Amel (Supervisor)Due to the dominance of men in their societies, Western and Arab women are often depicted as objects and symbols that have lost their right to voice their opinions. To bring their voices to the forefront, a number of female writers in both regions resort to sexual liberation and rebellion against society. Margaret Atwood and Algerian author Lynda Chouiten deconstruct the traditional idea of marriage in their respective works, The Edible Woman (1967) and Une Valse (2019). Accordingly, this thesis deals with how the two novels undermine the consecrated institution of marriage and patriarchal power. Drawing on the theories presented by Arab feminist Nawal El Saadawi's The Hidden Face of Eve theory and the Western theories of Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and Virginia Woolf's A One Room of One's Own. Both authors depict the rebellion and resistance of their female characters. Through their fictional personas' education, body image, sexual desires, and desire to divorce, they show how women can be affected by various issues.Item The Politics of Gender in Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian (2019): Exploring the Self and the Other in a Feminist Context(2023) Arab, Bouchra Lina; Kherif, Sonia (Supervisor)This dissertation analyses the theme of the Self and the other from a feminist perspective in Isabella Hammad’s novel the Parisian (2019), using the theoretical frameworks of Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said, Nawal El Saadawi’s theory of Arab feminism The Hidden Face of Eve (1980), and Gayatri Spivak’s theory of Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988). The study, employing Said’s theory, examines the pejorative image the westerns have created about the ‘Orient’ and ‘Orientals’ demonstrated by Hammad, through the discrimination Midhat encounters during his life in France, and the representation of the belly dancers. Furthermore, El Saadawi’s theory of Arab feminism analyses the patriarchal agenda against women in the Third World countries that degrade their position within society to men’s ‘other’. The novel’s female characters with a focus on Fatima, are portrayed to challenge traditional gender roles. Spivak’s theory of the Subaltern is applied in The Parisian (2019) to examine how the discriminatory laws against women in the region are used as a pretext for the Western discourse of liberation to secure the imperial presence; resulting in a further othering of women. The study concludes through the depiction of the October 1919 revolution in the literary piece scrutinized, that Arab women are able to deconstruct the traditional gender roles and create their own discourse of liberation without the need for Western intervention. The findings of the dissertation provide insights into contemporary discussions of feminism, Orientalism, and postcolonialism, and suggest avenues for future research.