Arabic Literature

A Critical Reading on the Novel of " The Family’s Winter " by Ali Badr with a Feminine Approach

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Zineh Erfatpour 1
Zahra Eivari 2

1 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Institute of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies. Tehran. Iran

2 Master of Arabic Language and Literature, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies Tehran. Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2024.373463.612804
Abstract
The feminism movement was created in the 19th century following the struggles of European women to gain more freedoms and civil rights, and it gradually became more widespread. This movement and its consequences, like any other transformation, found their way into literature, and concerned writers and poets in their works, according to their situation, raised women's issues and supported their rights. One of these writers, Ali Badr, is an Iraqi novelist who deals with the problems and issues of women in his novels, including The Family's Winter In this research, The Family's Winter has been analyzed with a descriptive-analytical method based on the first trend of feminist criticism, which is the prominence of women in men's works. The research results indicate that Ali Badr, along with highlighting the role of women and her feminine characteristics, also indirectly challenges the patriarchal society. He tries by drawing two female characters (aunt and nephew), on the one hand, to depict the limitations of women in Iraq in the 1960s and 1970s, and on the other hand, during the events of the novel, he defends women and women's rights and emphasizes the education and training of girls and women, women's independence and women's power, and most importantly, Ali Badr in this novel, undermine the anonymity of women and forced heterosexuality in the atmosphere of patriarchal Iraqi society

Keywords

Feminist criticism
Feminist components
patriarchal system
Ali Badr
The Family's Winter
Subjects
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  • Receive Date 06 March 2024
  • Revise Date 02 June 2024
  • Accept Date 13 June 2024

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