Pleasure and Bliss: Feminist Rage and Misery in Nawal El Saadawi’s Zeina


Abstract in English

Nawal ElSaadawi’s writings invariably question the emergent, social aspects of her time such as the three universal taboos–sex,religion and politics.Zeina tackles such issues,and this is something which gives the novel a universal essence.

References used

Bailey, Allison & Chris Cuomo. The Feminist Philosophy Reader . New York: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2008
Barthes, Roalnd. The Pleasure of the Text . Trans. Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1975
El Saadawi, Nawal. Zeina . Trans. Amira Nowaira. London: Saqi Books, 2011

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