Subversion and Exclusive Identity in Palestinian Fiction by Women
Palestinian fiction by women subverts and challenges the existing gender paradigms and traditional patriarchal norms in the Arab culture. This paper explores Huzama Habayeb's novel Velvet with the theoretical backing of Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, thus maintaining that a critical focus on the nexus between distinctive performativity and exclusive identities offers an alternative stance to the oppressive patriarchy in the Arab world. With the recent refugee crisis in the Muslim world, these narratives become extremely important and relevant, offering a space where issues of gender, identity, patriarchy, and religion erupt and coincide. Unveiling the construct of the female gender as only a set of performative norms instead of being an existentialist reality offers distinctive gender configurations and a site of exclusive identity for women. The paper establishes that Palestinian fiction by women has become a site for women's actualization where they defy and resist male hegemony.
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Abjection, Exclusive Identity, Distinctive Performativity, Gender, Palestinian Faction
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(1) Ammara Amin
PhD Scholar, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Ali Usman Saleem
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Asma Haseeb Qazi
Assistant Professor, Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Amin, A., Saleem, A. U., & Qazi, A. H. (2020). Subversion and Exclusive Identity in Palestinian Fiction by Women. Global Regional Review, V(II), 147-154. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-II).16
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CHICAGO : Amin, Ammara, Ali Usman Saleem, and Asma Haseeb Qazi. 2020. "Subversion and Exclusive Identity in Palestinian Fiction by Women." Global Regional Review, V (II): 147-154 doi: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-II).16
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HARVARD : AMIN, A., SALEEM, A. U. & QAZI, A. H. 2020. Subversion and Exclusive Identity in Palestinian Fiction by Women. Global Regional Review, V, 147-154.
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MHRA : Amin, Ammara, Ali Usman Saleem, and Asma Haseeb Qazi. 2020. "Subversion and Exclusive Identity in Palestinian Fiction by Women." Global Regional Review, V: 147-154
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OXFORD : Amin, Ammara, Saleem, Ali Usman, and Qazi, Asma Haseeb (2020), "Subversion and Exclusive Identity in Palestinian Fiction by Women", Global Regional Review, V (II), 147-154
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TURABIAN : Amin, Ammara, Ali Usman Saleem, and Asma Haseeb Qazi. "Subversion and Exclusive Identity in Palestinian Fiction by Women." Global Regional Review V, no. II (2020): 147-154. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-II).16