Elif Shafak’s Three Daughters of Eve: Allegory of Identities and Authentic Selves
Keywords:
Elif Shafak, feminism, gender, identity, intersectionality, Islam, religion, 3 Daughters of EveAbstract
The 2016 book Three Daughters of Eve using Elif Shafak challenges triumphing notions approximately girls's function in Islam and society. This research looks at Peri, Shirin, and Mona, Eve's kids, to find out how stereotypes are blended with stereotypes of gender, faith, and subculture to offer women within the e book their own reviews, values, and troubles. According to this examine, Shafak's incorporation of those associated ideas serves as a foundation for intersectional feminist discourse as a framework for comprehending the complicated nature of identification and self-information among ladies in the middle East. The findings of this examine offer an important contribution to the body of literature with the aid of showing how Shafak negotiates Western society's preconceptions about ladies and Islam via the 3 lady characters inside the novel as specific self-identities. The have a look at concludes that Shafak's art, which offers voice to her girls, raises components of variety and inclusion by way of outlining the severa approaches in which they're subjected to prejudice and showing the various techniques they rent to challenge their distinct voices and combat against oppression.
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