The Struggle of Veiled Muslim Women in America through Mohja Kahf’s “The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf”
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2017-06
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This dissertation discusses the struggle that Muslim Arab veiled women encounter in the
American diaspora. Written by the Syrian American writer and poet Mohja Kahf, The Girl in
the Tangerine Scarf is used as a corpus to analyze and understand this issue. This semibiographical
novel presents a great opportunity to address oppression, religious intolerance
and double consciousness, which are constant issues that Muslim Arab women immigrants
generally confront. The study is significant in the sense that it brings to view the unspoken of
all injustices and bias against American Muslim Arab veiled women. In other words, the
conflict had existed prior to 9/11 era. However, it was those bloody attacks which functioned
as a catalyst accelerating both oppression of these women and gave rise to their commitment
to struggle that subjugation. The dissertation equally analyzes the biased western view, which
boils down to the way the West is blinded by its own failure to recognize its stereotyping
actions on one hand, and criticizes the West beliefs of own culture to be far more superior
than Non-Western cultures, on the other. Hence, to achieve its intended purpose which lays in
revealing the different layers of hardships waged against Muslim women, the study calls for
postcolonial approach, the choice that resorts to Edward Said’s Orientalism theory.
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