Irony and Humor as Feminist Narrative Strategies: Arabian Gulf Women's Literature in Perspective

This article examines how, in her first novel entitled al-Shams madhbuha wa-l-layl mahbus (1997, The Sun is Slaughtered and the Night is Confined), the contemporary Kuwaiti woman writer, Fawziyya Shuwaysh al-Salim (b. 1949), employs irony and humor as narrative strategies through which the absurdity...

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Main Author: Tijani, Olatunbosun (author)
Format: article
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8397
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