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THE DILEMMA AND RESISTANCE OF SALMA IN FADIA FAQIRA NOVEL MY NAME IS SALMA

Hanan Abbas Hussein

Volume: 10 Issue: 1 2020

Abstract:

This study aims to describe the dilemma and resistance of Salma, the major character in FadiaFaqir's novel My Name is Salma. Faqir sheds light on all the problems and agonies that Salma encounters in her life. She explains how Salma lives in a hypocrite world where people show clemency and humanity but the reality reveals the opposite. Salma is the victim of prudery and racism of east and west worlds. She flees from her family and country to save herself from the crime of Honour killings. Being alien woman with a new identity does not give her comfort and peace. She feels restricted between inescapable past and a tormented present. She fights against different kinds of oppression and deviltry, succeeding to prove her strength and resolution to build up her new life in a new culture.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i01.028

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