Unveiling the Veil: Gender, Power, and Women’s Selfhood in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (2014) presents an insight into the relationships between gender, patriarchy, and the perception of women’s selfhood in Afghan society. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the protagonist Rahima and her great-great-grandmother Shekiba experience the restrictions of...