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Representing Islam: female subjects in Suzanne Fisher Staples's novels
This article offers a reading of Suzanne Fisher Staples's novels Shabanu, Haveli,and Under the Persimmon Tree, drawing on postcolonial theory (in particular, Chandra Talpade Mohanty's essay "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" and Edward Said's Orientalism) to inform its analysis of the construction of girls and women in these texts. It argues that the novels' representations of Muslim girls are built on a naturalized contrast between liberal humanist paradigms of individualism and personal freedom, and homogenizing depictions of oppressed Muslim females, thus producing Orientalist distinctions between the West and the Orient.
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Children's literature association quarterlyVolume
32Issue
1Season
SpringPagination
47 - 61Publisher
Johns Hopkins University PressLocation
Baltimore, Md.ISSN
0885-0429eISSN
1553-1201Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2007, Johns Hopkins University PressUsage metrics
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