Her stories did not attempt to undermine the patriarchal system rather they were used to depict the problems inherent in a patriarchal society when men do not adhere to their religious teachings that advocate for the kind treatment of women. While taking on such controversial subjects Fatimah Rifaat’s protagonists remained religiously faithful and passive feelings towards their fate. Accordingly, Rifaat uses two narrative points of view in each story to express the protagonists’ new discourses.Fatimah Rifaat (Arabic: أليفة رفعت June 5, 1930-January 1996), better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat, was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, relationships, and loss in rural Egyptian culture. The protagonists’ response to the hegemonic discourse in the two stories is carnivalesque because the use of language (or its absence) aims at deconstructing the phallogocentric discourse and establishing a new one. The study argues that both speaking and silence are attempts to heal women’s cyclic trauma, as they are means of representing women’s experience and oppression over time. Protagonists use, which are speaking and silence. These stories present two different paradigms of resistance that the female “Bahiyya’s Eyes,” culled from Rifaat’s collection Distant View of a Minaret and Other Short The study explores theĬharacterization of the protagonists of two short stories: “Distant View of a Minaret” and This study aims at investigating the dilemma of creating a counter discourse that speaksĪgainst the dominant androcentric one in Alifa Rifaat’s fiction.
Distant View of a Minaret Rifʻat, Alīfah. Rifʻat, Alīfah - Criticism and interpretation Feminism Discourse Rifʻat, Alīfah.
Speaking and Silence as Means of Resistance in Alifa Rifaat's Distant View of a Minaret and Bahiyya's Eyes
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