Open AccessA Woman’s Struggle for Identity and Existence: A Critical Study of Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma
Author(s) -
Ahmed Saad Aziz
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
lārk
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-5836
pISSN - 1999-5601
DOI - 10.31185/lark.vol4.iss31.201
Subject(s) - honor , humanity , identity (music) , racism , feeling , gender studies , sociology , ethnic group , trace (psycholinguistics) , political science , law , aesthetics , art , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , computer science , operating system , linguistics
This paper attempts to critically trace the Arab woman fugitive who flees from what the so-called backward world to the so-called modern and civilized world. It is a loss in a hypocrite world where in each part of it people assume humanity and coexistence. However, the real truth is that each person is a racist and ethnic against the other. The paper examines the postcolonial text that reveals the instill gap of racism and inferiority of East to the West. Gaining the Western identity by an Easterner is not an end of abusing and disdaining, it is also a new door for a new name of discrimination. It investigates the writer’s fragile identity for feeling guilty towards herself, her family, her society, her religion and that she deserves honor killing. However, her new identity does not give her peace and happy life. Being a woman in a western country means to be ready for selling your body to sustain yourself and your dependents