Why insanity is not subversive in Hanan Al-Shaykh's short story ‘season of madness’
Dalya Abudi maintains that in many female Arab texts ‘madness serves as a metaphor for female victimisation on the one hand and for female resistance on the other’. This paper contends that the representation of women as insane in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘Season of Madness’ is not subversive. I draw...
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| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 1465-3303 http://hdl.handle.net/10725/7750 https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2014.990776 Balaa, L. (2014). Why Insanity Is Not Subversive in Hanan Al-Shaykh's Short Story ‘Season of Madness’. Australian Feminist Studies, 29(82), 480-499. http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2014.990776 |
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| description | Dalya Abudi maintains that in many female Arab texts ‘madness serves as a metaphor for female victimisation on the one hand and for female resistance on the other’. This paper contends that the representation of women as insane in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘Season of Madness’ is not subversive. I draw on Camineor-Santangelo's approach to feminist criticism, which argues that a madwoman cannot speak. Camineor-Santangelo explains that madness is complicit with de Lauretis’ technologies of gender because it gives the illusion of power but at the same time the mad (non)-subject is located outside any ‘sphere where power can be exerted’. I illustrate how in this story female madness is mainly represented as witchcraft and evil, stigma, a female malady, a denied subjectivity, social control, illusional power, self-sabotage and a final surrender. |
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| spelling | Why insanity is not subversive in Hanan Al-Shaykh's short story ‘season of madness’Balaa, LumaDalya Abudi maintains that in many female Arab texts ‘madness serves as a metaphor for female victimisation on the one hand and for female resistance on the other’. This paper contends that the representation of women as insane in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘Season of Madness’ is not subversive. I draw on Camineor-Santangelo's approach to feminist criticism, which argues that a madwoman cannot speak. Camineor-Santangelo explains that madness is complicit with de Lauretis’ technologies of gender because it gives the illusion of power but at the same time the mad (non)-subject is located outside any ‘sphere where power can be exerted’. I illustrate how in this story female madness is mainly represented as witchcraft and evil, stigma, a female malady, a denied subjectivity, social control, illusional power, self-sabotage and a final surrender.PublishedN/A2018-05-02T12:41:26Z2018-05-02T12:41:26Z20152018-05-02Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article1465-3303http://hdl.handle.net/10725/7750https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2014.990776Balaa, L. (2014). Why Insanity Is Not Subversive in Hanan Al-Shaykh's Short Story ‘Season of Madness’. Australian Feminist Studies, 29(82), 480-499.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2014.990776enAustralian Feminist Studiesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/77502021-03-19T10:43:16Z |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/7750 https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2014.990776 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2014.990776 |