http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2018(III-I).17
10.31703/gpr.2018(III-I).17
Published : Jun 2018
Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly
Important as religion is to behave socially, its complex nature has remained the staple concern of literary narratives. The enigma of religion is particularly evident in the life narratives of Malala Yousafzai (I Am Malala, 2013) and Ziauddin Yousafzai (Let Her Fly 2018). The selected texts have been studied using the Theory of Representation (1997) to investigate there presentation of Islam by applying the legitimation strategies proposed by Theo Van Leeuwen in his book Discourse and Practice (2008). Islam and its practices have been exploited by detailing specific practices related to Muslim women with lesser consideration of Islamic injunctions that benefits its adherents. This study concludes that in there presentation of religion, the selected authors have misrepresented the ideologies, belief systems, and values of Islam by reinforcing negative stereotypes of Muslim women as subject to religious practices that use the body as a site of patriarchal domination and religious constraints.
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Postcolonial Perspective, Stereotypes, Representation, Binary Dichotomy, Science, Faith, Religion
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(1) Aisha Jadoon
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Oroosa Anwar
MS Scholar, Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan
(3) Kanwal Zahra
Assistant Professor, Centre for Languages and Translation Studies, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan
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APA : Jadoon, A., Anwar, O., & Zahra, K. (2018). Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly. Global Political Review, III(I), 156-163. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2018(III-I).17
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CHICAGO : Jadoon, Aisha, Oroosa Anwar, and Kanwal Zahra. 2018. "Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly." Global Political Review, III (I): 156-163 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2018(III-I).17
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HARVARD : JADOON, A., ANWAR, O. & ZAHRA, K. 2018. Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly. Global Political Review, III, 156-163.
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MHRA : Jadoon, Aisha, Oroosa Anwar, and Kanwal Zahra. 2018. "Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly." Global Political Review, III: 156-163
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MLA : Jadoon, Aisha, Oroosa Anwar, and Kanwal Zahra. "Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly." Global Political Review, III.I (2018): 156-163 Print.
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OXFORD : Jadoon, Aisha, Anwar, Oroosa, and Zahra, Kanwal (2018), "Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly", Global Political Review, III (I), 156-163
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TURABIAN : Jadoon, Aisha, Oroosa Anwar, and Kanwal Zahra. "Contesting the Representation of Muslim Women: A Discursive Exploration of Religious Belief in I Am Malala and Let Her Fly." Global Political Review III, no. I (2018): 156-163. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2018(III-I).17