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Item Countering the Patriarchal Official History in Tahmima AnamThe Good Muslim(Department of English, 2018) Acharya, JeebitaThis research paper examines how Anam counters the official history of Bangladesh in The Good Muslim. In the novel, Maya is the central character and she is projected as a very rebellious and dynamic character. She fights against the ideology of patriarchal society which imposes women even they have fought for the sake of state. Maya has challenged the absurd characteristics of soldiers as well as the state. She has countered the patriarchal norms and conventions practiced in the society. The major thrust of the thesis is to explore how Anam projects the idea of equal rights and justice for both male and female as they have equally participated in the war. The researcher in order to justify the claim mobilizes the theoretical insights of Margot Badran's Islamic Feminism. Islamic Feminism claims that Quran carries the principle of equality of all human beings but the patriarchal society hinders it and imposes its ideas and practice to subvert females. Therefore Anam raises questions to the state that why the state ignores the presence of female in the independence war of Bangladesh instead of honoring them as male. Anam opposes the trend of male centric history writing tradition in the past in this novel. She struggles for the position of women who were participated in the independence war of Bangladesh. Anam fights for both male and female for equal rights, justice and honor who were participated in the independence war of Bangladesh.Item Islamic Feminist Intervention into Jean Sasson’s American Chick in Saudi Arabia(Department of English, 2016) Thapa, ShusilThis research paper deals with the issue of representation of Saudi Arabian women in Jean Sasson's novel American Chick in Saudi Arabiafrom Islamic feminist perspective. It criqutes how Sasson belittles and demeans Saudi Arabian Women. The writer brings an orientalist, ‘Sister Other’ attitude when she approaches the Saudi women. She recounts the pitiable condition of Saudi Arabia as a teenage American girl staying in Riyadh to work for a hospital. She preaches the Western version of women’s freedom and banks on the foreign influences and Western modernity to alter the discriminated condition of the Saudi women. Sasson criticizes the Islamic values time and again for being overtly patriarchal. However, she fails to understand that Islamic feminists do not want the Western, secular version of women’s freedom rather they tend to locate gender equality in the spirit of Qur’an and bring about the gender equality remaining faithful to Islam religion at the same time. To justify the claim this research employs the theoretical insights of Islamic Feminists like Anbitta Kynsilehto, Asma Barlas, Liv Tonnerson and the theorist of orientalism Edward Said.