Re-thinking the Veil, Jihad and Home in Fadia Faqir’s Willow Trees Don’t Weep (2014)
In her latest novel Willow Trees Don’t Weep(2014), the writer Fadia Faqir decided to go against the grain as a Muslim woman coming from the Middle East but lives in Britain and write about jihad, terrorism and Taliban. In this novel, the author negotiates meanings of secularism, fundamentalism, jiha...
Main Author: | Sarnou Dallel |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-10-01
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Series: | Open Cultural Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0014 |
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