The Stranger in the Mirror: Female Identity Crisis, Dissociation and Self-Fragmentation in Kafa Al-Zubi’s Novel X

doi:10.20469/ijhss.7.20003-1

The Stranger in the Mirror: Female Identity Crisis, Dissociation and Self-Fragmentation in Kafa Al-Zubi’s Novel X

International Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences ◽

10.20469/ijhss.7.20003-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Keyword(s):

Identity Crisis ◽

Female Identity ◽

The Stranger

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Identity Crisis of Lyndall in Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm

IJOHMN ◽

10.24113/ijohmn.v6i3.182 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 36-55

Author(s):

Dr. Ramesh Prasad Adhikary

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Literary Theory ◽

Research Paper ◽

Identity Crisis ◽

Female Identity ◽

Farm Workers ◽

Women's Identity

In this research paper, the researcher explores how the female identity was in crisis in the colonized Africa. Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm is taken as a primary text to explore the exploitation of colonizers by interpreting it with the tool of postcolonial literary theory. African farm owners were displaced from their farm landscape by the colonizers. As a result, the farm workers have to face the problem of identity crisis. Englishmen were responsible for bringing Africans identity crisis. They struggle to establish their identity on the Karoo farmland. The main victims were women whose identity is determined in relation to the place. Their placelessness represents their identity crisis in the Karoo farm landscape. Women’s identity is connecting with the place. As a qualitative research, the researcher has extensively presents the crisis of identity of female in their own land when the colonizers seized their land.

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Analyzing Feminine Subjectivity in Male Jingoistic Society: A Critical Study of Naheed's A Bad Woman's Story

Global Social Sciences Review ◽

10.31703/gssr.2020(v-iii).39 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V (III) ◽

pp. 365-373

Author(s):

Amna Aziz ◽

Aniqa Rashid ◽

Tayyabba Yasmin

Keyword(s):

Gender Discrimination ◽

Identity Crisis ◽

Female Identity ◽

Critical Study ◽

Feminine Subjectivity ◽

Autobiographical Writing ◽

Patriarchal Society ◽

The Feminine ◽

Feminism Theory ◽

Independent Existence

The present study tends to explore the feminine subjectivity as a heart-throbbing phenomenon for men that keeps on prevailing in a patriarchal society. This is an exploration into the life of Pakistan's renowned writer, poet and human activist, Kishwar Naheed. Her autobiographical writing Buri Aurat ki Katha (A Bad Woman's Story) probes into the life of a female character who is being restrained by society due to her achievements and fame but gender discrimination prevailing in society compelled her to consider herself a stigma. Naheed is taken as a representative character to project the reality of a patriarchal society that denies feminine subjectivity in society. It covers gynophobia over men's mind towards women powerful and independent existence in society. This study contextualizes within the border of feminism theory that covers threat to female identity by throwing light to the perspective taken by Kristeva's views on feminism, majorly focusing on male jingoistic society. The present inquiry spotlights the ways in which women suffer through threatened, identity crisis, abuse, and oppression that further leads woman's journey of life restrained under social commands.

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