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Sto caricando le informazioni... Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (African Writers Series No. 271) (edizione 1987)di Alifa Rifaat (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Sharply honest stories by an Egyptian writing from within the isolated world of Muslim women. Very well crafted. Alifa Rifaat (1930-1996) was an Egyptian woman, deeply committed to her Muslim faith and sensitive to the deep pain of women. She was educated, but entered an arranged marriage and remained isolated from modern, western ideas. Many books by and about Muslim women defend or attack Islamic treatment of women. Rifaat does neither; she simply writes from the inside of women’s lives, sometimes chiding Muslim men for not living up to their obligations to women. Rifaat’s stories are striking. Some are only a couple of pages long. Most deal with women and how they cope with the loneliness and neglect. Some are explicitly sexual; one of them depicting a woman lying next to her satisfied husband her own desires unsatisfied. Some of the stories have a touch of magic. In one a woman moves into a “haunted house” where she is seduced by a female snake who gives her sexual pleasure she had never received from a man. The stories often took me by surprise; often ending with an unexpected twist. A mother conspires with her daughter to trick her husband, working abroad for a year, into thinking that the girl’s illegitimate child is really the mother’s. Not all of Rifaat’s stories focus on women. Death is a common theme of hers, and in her stories both women and men die or are affected by the death of another. In one a man who has grown away from his parents and village returns for his father’s funeral and realizes how much he has missed by not sharing with his family when he still had a chance. Read more: http://wp.me/p24OK2-10y Alifa Rifaat was an Egyptian writer who wrote in the 1950s - 1980s and lived a largely very traditional life. Her stories focus on the lives of women, often in rural settings, and present a straightforward view of sex, love and its absence, and death Women's lives are hard, and Rifaat shows their struggles for happiness in a culture in which men often do not live up to the family and sexual obligations required by their religion. Some of the most moving stories involve the closeness some of the characters to the rural world and its animals, more so, perhaps, then to other people. The daily five calls to prayer set a rhythm for the book, and mark the passing of time. As with any collection, some stories are better than others, but taken together they provide a vivid sense of time and place and the limitations of a world in which a women's role is circumscribed not only by poverty but also by oppressive tradition. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiAfrican Writers (271) Elenchi di rilievo
This collection of short stories admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque. The book provides accounts of death, the lives of women in purdah and the frustrations of everyday life. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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