English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

This article considers the non-diasporic Egyptian feminist literary encounter with modernity through Gothic spaces. The dissociative relationship to fearsome spaces demonstrates that there is no symbolic place for women in Egypt’s (patriarchal) modernization. Egypt is often depicted as a woman, and Al-Samman’s work on the  wa’d al banat  motif – the daughter who is erased through burial – is used here to explore Egyptian feminist texts’ rejection of the conflation of space and subject in the patriarchal symbolic order. These spaces are read as Gothic through what Luce Irigaray calls “dereliction” and the Warwick Research Collective’s theorization of “combined and uneven development”. The article considers Gothic “bewildered” spaces in the palatial home and the city in Mansoura Ez Eldin’s Maryam’s  Maze , a forest in Nawal El Saadawi’s  The Fall of the Imam , and Bedouin estates and the desert in Miral Al-Tahawy’s novels  The Tent  and  Gazelle Tracks .

Buried in the desert and lost in the city: Gothic spaces in Egyptian feminist writing