Critique of Islamic Patriarchy in Yousafzai's I am Malala

Abstract

This research is concerned with how the narrator of the memoir, I Am Malala, female characters of happen to make an entry into the secular western world in the course of fighting against the atrocious practices of Islamic society. In I Am Malala, the narrator is compelled to raise voice against the ban on the rights of girls to education. Her father motivates her to give expression to her opinions on any act of atrocity and injustice that she comes across in her life. Malala is the leading activist who devotes her life to the emancipation and empowerment of women in general and Muslim women particular. She is of the opinion that no force however tyrannical can check the liberation movement of women. Malala holds the view that education is key to the guaranteeing of women’s access to most of the important apparatuses of state. Through her activist politics, Malala appeals all the girls of the world to raise their voices against the oppressive forces ranging from Islamic doctrine and ruthless patriarchal practices. The memoir strengths combine in what is perhaps it’s most horrifying and important scene when the boy, his mother and a friend watch a televised execution, common in Qaddafi’s Swat valley that in the novel takes place in a basketball arena. The boy sees their next-door neighbor made to climb a wide, sturdy-looking aluminum ladder, and notices how at every rung he stopped and begged for mercy. Islamic patriarchy renders the positions of female characters vulnerable is critiqued in I am Malala by Yousafzai. In I am Malala the oppression of Islamic women in the patriarchal society of Islamic world is challenged by the narrator who is driven by the flamboyant rebellious spirit.