THE GOVERNING DYNAMICS OF PATRIARCHY IN AHDAF SOUEIF’S IN THE EYE OF THE SUN
THE GOVERNING DYNAMICS OF PATRIARCHY IN AHDAF SOUEIF’S IN THE EYE OF THE SUN

Summary/Abstract: “The Governing Dynamics of Patriarchy in Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun”. Perhaps of direct relevance to the social status of Arab women is the experience of Egyptian women proposed by the contemporary Egyptian novelist, writing in English, Ahdaf Soueif. In In the Eye of the Sun (1992), Soueif tells the story of modern, educated and middle-class Egyptian women as they bump and fall in their marriages but ultimately win their paths towards some satisfying degree of self-understanding. Soueif’s drama does not claim to be totally successful in subverting patriarchal mindsets. Instead, the author seems to have fairly gained insights at the dynamics fueling patriarchy in today’s Arab cultural climate.

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