Nawal El Saadawi was trained as a medical doctor, taking her place alongside two other doctor revolutionaries from the global South, Che Guevara and Frantz Fanon—that most human, most distinguished ...band of revolutionaries. Although happily she lived much longer than either Guevara or Fanon, her radical politics never subsided or eased off even up to her last days: in that, she was also the best kind of revolutionary. There is also something in the texture of her writing that reminds me of Fanon. Reading it, you feel that it is always written through the body: there is a physical, phenomenological, processual form of corporeal thinking and experiencing, made up of objective descriptions of individualized, specific external and internal functioning parts of the body that run seamlessly into a haunting, breathtaking evocation of inner emotions, emotions that are always felt along the pulses and that strike us in a peculiarly powerful...
Remembering Nawal El Saadawi Niu, Zimu
Journal of Middle East women's studies,
03/2022, Letnik:
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At exactly 21:15 Beijing time on March 21, 2021, my PhD adviser, Professor Xue of Beijing Foreign Studies University, sent me a text message that Nawal El Saadawi had died. Several other scholars ...sent their condolences. Why me? I thought. It was because I had written the first PhD dissertation in China on Nawal’s works; I was the first Chinese reader to knock on the door of her Cairo apartment; and I had planned her 2014 tour of Beijing. In the early 2010s, my choice of Nawal El Saadawi as a dissertation topic raised eyebrows. Some senior scholars deplored my choice, because they saw in Nawal an attention seeker playing to the gallery. Others were genuinely concerned, sensing that this inexperienced student might suffer consequences if she dived into such controversy. I had my own reasons. I had always been skeptical of what was canonical, and my skepticism often turned...
What I Will Never Forget Mignolo, Walter D
Journal of Middle East women's studies,
03/2022, Letnik:
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As I remember it, it was some time, some day in March 1993 that a lecture by Nawal El Saadawi was announced that I knew I would not miss. Though I did not know Nawal El Saadawi personally, I knew ...enough about her to make the lecture the priority of that day. And so I went. I remember Nawal sitting there while she was introduced. I was mesmerized by her presence, just sitting there, brown skin, white hair, and that I-do-not-know-what that people in the audience have felt just by being there. I could feel that something special was taking place. The introduction ended; Nawal stood up, looked at the audience, and walked toward the blackboard. She drew a large triangle. On the upper vertex of the triangle she wrote God; on the two lower vertices, Money and Veil. Calm, using the significance of silences, she turned to...
En plus de ses écrits littéraires, de ceux pour le cinéma et pour le théâtre, Jean-Claude Carrière a également publié plusieurs ouvrages faisant retour sur sa propre pratique de raconteur d'histoires ...grâce à ses enseignements à la Fémis où il intervenait notamment dans le département scénario. Le livre Exercice du scénario, qu'il coécrit avec Pascal Bonitzer, pourrait paraître a priori fidèle au genre du manuel et dans la lignée de ceux qui l'ont précédé et de ceux le suivront, à savoir des considérations pratiques pour lesquelles le mot « exercice » prend tout son sens. Pourtant, le fait que ce mot soit au singulier là où on aurait pu attendre le pluriel met en avant toute la spécificité de cet ouvrage : ce ne sont pas tant les astuces et autres séances d'entraînement qui sont mises en avant, mais bien la pratique du métier lui-même, la façon dont nous l'exerçons ou, plutôt, dont il doit être exercé.
This paper focuses on the presentation of women oppression and emancipation in Nawal El Saadawi’s novel, Woman at Point Zero. The novel is specifically a call and an appeal to the women in her ...Egyptian society and the world at large on the need to revisit their activities and contribution toward the oppression, suppression, molestation, and brutality of their fellow women. Nawal El Saadawi presents with unique clarity, the unpleasant experience women are subjected to in her male-dominated society (Egypt). The novel aesthetically captures the oppression, sexual harassment, domestic aggression, and intimidation that the Egyptian women are subjected to in her patriarchal social milieu. Through a Masculinist study of the text, this paper not only submits that women create sa conducive atmosphere for the unhappiness of their own kinds but also subverts the author’s proposition of the way forward for the Egyptian women who are disenchanted under the atmosphere that is besieged with unfair treatment of the women. This essay unambiguously argues that El Saadawi’s understanding of women emancipation from the persistent violence on the women is outrageously momentary and unsatisfactory. Indeed, the novel has succeeded in subverting the stereotypical representation of the women as weak, passive, and physically helpless yet, the cherished long-lasting emancipation expected from her oppressed women could not be fully achieved. The novelist portrays a resilient and revolutionary heroine whose understanding of women liberation leaves every reader disconcerted. The paper examines the oppression that the heroine, Firdaus suffers from men and her fellow women and how she eventually achieved a momentary emancipation.
Feminism represents the battle for equal access to opportunities in society for males and females and, therefore, a necessary struggle for social justice. It is sometimes the case, however, that ...feminism degenerates into a battle against men, a tendency Mawuli Adzei refers to as "radical separatist feminism" (47). In African literature, this standpoint is reflected in the abject degradation of male characters, who are usually presented as the oppressors of women, enemies of women, barriers to women's progress, and only without whom women would be able to achieve their highest potentials in society (Adzei 47). Against this backdrop, and using El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero as a primary text, this paper, while acknowledging the validity and necessity of the crusade for gender equity in African societies, contests the logic fueling male-bashing by foregrounding certain often-ignored variables in this debate: first, the faulty homogenization/essentialization of men and women (and by extension, the neglection of intersectionality) and, second, the constraints certain cultural expectations pose to men. I conclude by highlighting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's point that-because feminism is potentially liberating for both women and men-we can all be feminists.
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A critical review of Nawal El Saadawi's novels indicate the centrality of the feminine experience-foregrounding the extent to which women's oppression and exploitation are legitimized by race, class, ...religion, and the patriarchal system in Africa, how her novels attempt a socialist restructuring of the society, and the extent to which she undermines patriarchal power in heterosexual practices. While these remain symptomatic of El Saadawi's novels, it is important to reconsider the role of her male characters and the ways in which their representations speak to futurity. This is important because although various scholars expose the rot in the world of El Saadawi's novels-stressing the male chauvinism factor-there is also the need to unearth the anticipatory impulses that are realized through masculine representations and spatial dynamics. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnival, the objective of this paper is to examine how El Saadawi reimagines the future nation through masculine representations, spatiality, and futurity.
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A Much-Needed Voice of Resistance Accad, Evelyne
Journal of Middle East women's studies,
03/2022, Letnik:
18, Številka:
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It gives me great pleasure to honor Nawal El Saadawi, who has been such an inspiration and a role model in my life. My awareness of the numerous challenges that Arab women face grew from Nawal’s ...prolific work. I had left my country of birth—Lebanon—to escape the plight of my Arab sisters and to find out who I was away from the restrictions I had experienced as an adolescent. It was in the United States that I discovered Simone de Beauvoir, who opened my eyes to the plight of women all over the world. She inspired me to commit my research and writing to women’s issues and more specifically to Arab women’s problems. But it was Nawal El Saadawi who forced me to examine my own dilemmas and concerns. She was writing about the problems women in my part of the world were facing. Hers was the outspoken, eloquent voice...
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