Re-Reading God Dies by the Nile

ISBN-13: 9783639320985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str.

Rabi Abdulsalam Ibrahim

Opis

This book provides an engaging perspective on Nawal el Saadawis novel, God Dies by the Nile. Nawal el Saadawis works have been praised for their bold representation of feminist issues. Working within a post-feminist stylistic framework, this book gives an insight into how el Saadawi depicts the inhibiting customs that oppress both peasant men and women in the Arab world. This linguistic approach within a feminist background is meant to bridge the gap found in the purely thematic approaches to el Saadawis work. In Re-Reading God Dies By The Nile: A Post-Feminist Perspective, Ibrahim explains how the novels characterization and narrative techniques create contradictions which belie the novels outwardly feminist outlook. The book has chapters on the representation of women in texts, narrative strategies and the role of religion in the lives of the characters in the novel. It has also given full- fledged treatment to Hallidays transitivity system in analysing power relations in discourse.

O autorze

Rabi Abdulsalam Ibrahim lectures at the Department Of English and French, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Her areas of interest are semantics, sociolinguistics, and women's studies. She has written book reviews and articles on Nigerian Pidgin, feminist criticism,the semantics of colours, and teaching English to second language learners.