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Nkealah, Naomi. 2009. Contesting the Culture of Silence in Muslim Women's Writing: Women, Sex and Marriage in Alifa Rifaat's Distant View of a Minaret. English Academy Review Southern African Journal of English Studies 26 (1) : 27–40.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | religion | silence | women's language | writing

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Via selected stories from Alifa Rafaat's Muslim women writing 'Distant View of a Minaret (1983)', this paper considers the silencing of Muslim women (as to sex and marriage) and their self-preservation strategies in the light of overpowering man-made patriarchal norms.