2020 Volume 5 Issue 2 Supplementary
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WOMEN AND THE PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY IN THE POETICAL BOOK “ESMĪ LAITHA SA’ABĀ” BY FATIMA NAOOT


Ali HEIDARI, Rouhollah MAHDIAN TORGHABEH, Maryam JALILIAN
Abstract

The expression of the women’s issues and proposition of their freedom and rights are amongst the important issues frequently dealt with in the contemporary literature. Such a subject as the women’s rights was posited more than ever before, after Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt and the evolutions that were subsequently brought about in Arabic countries; the literary works dealt with the women’s freedom and their social-political demands. Although such an issue was posited in the poems by the male poets and authors, the female poets, as well, have given it the highest priority in their compositions since then. Fatima Naoot (born in 1964) is one of the contemporary Egyptian literary women and poets giving a special position in their compositions. In all the poems by Naoot, traces of the Egyptian women’s issues, problems and concerns can be seen. The concerns and problems put forth by Naoot about the women’s issues are loneliness, maternal concerns, lack of freedom, wastage of rights, lack of having a proper social position and stance, dominance of the matriarchal perspectives and so forth. This study has made efforts to extract and categorize and subsequently analyze the thoughts and perspectives of Fatima Naoot about the women’s issues based on her poetry book called “Esmī Laitha Sa’abā”. This study was a theoretical research carried out based on a descriptive-analytical method; the data have been collected through library research‎‎‎.


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