Gendered Resistance in Selected Novels by Hanan al-Shaykh, Sahar Khalifeh, and Leila Aboulela: Everyday Agency, Narrative Politics, and Postcolonial Feminist Theory
This article argues that Hanan al-Shaykh's Women of Sand and Myrrh, Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns, and Leila Aboulela's Minaret theorize gendered resistance as situated, everyday practices rather than singular acts of overt defiance. Reading the three novels through Chandra Talpade Mohanty's decolonized feminism, James...