Open AccessKENIZÉ MOURAD AND EARLY MIDDLE EASTERN FEMINISM
Author(s) -
Irina Armianu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the levantine review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2164-6678
DOI - 10.6017/lev.v1i2.3052
Subject(s) - ottoman empire , empire , narrative , ancient history , indian subcontinent , feminism , history , state (computer science) , middle east , literature , art , gender studies , sociology , archaeology , political science , law , politics , algorithm , computer science
This article explores the waning days of the Ottoman Empire and emergence of the modern state system in the early twentieth century Levant from the purview of Kenizé Mourad's self-narrative Regards from the Dead Princess: Novel of a Life. A work of history and literary fiction, Mourad's novel is an account of the last remnants of a secular Levantine culture, the story of a crumbling empire, and the personal tale of a young woman and her exiled imperial family strewn about the continents, torn between Lebanon, Europe, and the Indian subcontinent