?It?s time to break the rules?, Kvinnligt författarskap i ett postrevolutionärt Egypten
Den moderna arabiska novellenEgyptiska kvinnliga författareDen egyptiska revolutionenRomantikModernismModern standardarabiskaKairoarabiska
AbstractTitle:?It?s time to break the rules?, Female writing in a post revolutionary Egypt Year: 2013Author: Teresa Egfors GergesKeywords: the modern Arabic short story, Egyptian female writers, the Egyptian revolution, romanticism, realism, modernism, Modern Standard Arabic, Cairo Arabic.The purpose of this essay is to analyze four stories, written by Egyptian women and published after the Egyptian revolution, namely; A?wal mimm? yanbagh? and Qi??a shatwiyya by Hanan Elbadawi and Bint r?gil and Sam?ra ?-?ar?b?sh? by Shaimaa Elmaria. The stories of the essay are analyzed by the questions:? What are the themes? ? What kind of language and style is it? ? What are the messages?The essay is based on a comparing analyze, the stories are especially analyzed by Sabry Hafez? theories about the modern Arabic short story. Interviews with the two writers have been made. Other sources are literature, a lecture and a panel discussion. All narratives have their setting in Egypt, the protagonists are women and they are written in Modern Standard Arabic, but include some Cairo Arabic in varying degrees. In Elbadawis stories you find themes such as unhappy love, death and their style is more romantic. Elmarias stories are more realistic and want to describe reality, one is about a real person, a man whose heart was crushed and how he then loses his mind, the other want to describe the unequal situation for women in Egypt. Elbadawi do not aim to give any messages with her stories, she describes and mediate feelings. Elmaria on the other hand has a message with every short story she writes, in this case; not to judge and to show the unequal situation for women in Egypt.