The Portrayal of Female Characters in Radwa Ashour's Thulathyat Ghernata and Tariq Ali's Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

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1 Aswan University- Faculty of Arts- English Dept.

2 English Department- faculty of Arts- Aswan University

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Literature is the outcome of the cultural background of its writer. Every writer’s work reflects his viewpoint as well as his cultural and social beliefs. The present study is to explore the representation of female characters of two novel: from different cultural backgrounds. Radwa Ashour’s Thulathyat Ghernata and Ali's Shadow of the Pomegranate Tree. The study has concluded that Ashour, as an Egyptian novelist in a patriarchal society, focuses more on representing female characters as protagonists who make decisions and save the legacy of the Arab Islamic civilization in al-Andalus. On the other hand, female characters in Ali’s Shadow of the Pomegranate Tree seem to be models of the Orientalist view of women in the East; he depicts them as lustful, passive and dependent. Hence, the representation of female characters in the selected novels of the two novelists was affected by the prevailing image in the milieu they lived in.

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