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Literary Autobiography and Subject Formation: A Comparative Study of Mona Enamouri’s A Chat upon Thames and Elif Shafak’s Black Mil

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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The two novels, Mona Enamouri's A Chat Upon Thames (2014) and Elif Shafak's Black Milk (2007), are autobiographical writings that depict the process of self-representation revealing a postmodern feminist interest in subject formation. Enamouri, on one hand, reflects on the self between places and voices revealing a construction of awareness and self-definition in reaction to external experiences. Shafak, on the other, interweaves a number of questions on female body and identity within the contextual struggle of patriarchical society and intrinsic emotional-personality struggles. Pregnancy and post-partum depression are discussed in line with questions of what it means to have a family, construct a book and determine self-worth. Negotiating a range of feminist thematic preoccupations with voice, spaces, and body the two novels unravel the critical function of feminist autobiographies in constructing the self from “discordant" voices through a dynamic process of self-representation through creation.  

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10.21608/jwadi.2020.84950

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Mona Enamouri, Elif Shafak, Aesthetic Subject, feminist autobiography, post-modern subject, women studies, literary autobiography

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Ghada Mohamad Ali

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Alakhdar

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Lecturer of Cultural Studies Faculty of Languages MSA University

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25

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25 - الجزء الثالث

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12803

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2020-01-01

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2020-04-22

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2020-01-01

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30

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2536-9555

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2682-4582

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مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه

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Literary Autobiography and Subject Formation: A Comparative Study of Mona Enamouri’s A Chat upon Thames and Elif Shafak’s Black Mil

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22 Jan 2023