STUTTERING AND FEMALE AGENCY IN NAJWA BIN SHATWAN'S NOVEL CONCERTO CORINNA EDUARDO AND GHADA KHOURY’S NOVEL GIRL OF THUNDER
| dc.contributor.author | Ismaael Imad Ismaael Hosheya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-13T10:56:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-13T10:56:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-09-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study examines how Najwa Bin Shatwan's novel Concerto Corinna Eduardo and Ghada Khoury's novel Girl of Thunder addresses female stuttering as form of resistance in post-colonial Arab narratives. In this study, stuttering is not seen as a defect or a linguistics disability, however, it has been noticed as a subversive form of agency, an act of female resistance, a tool of protest, a state of disequilibrium which destabilizes the language boundaries. Drawing on Spivak's notion of epistemic violence (1998) and Derrida's Phallogocentric speech, Deleuze and Guattari’s deterritorialization, as well as Cixous & Clement’ (1976) writing on female oppression, this study examines stuttering as a phenomenon of female exclusion in a patriarchal context. In addition, this study demonstrates how the structure of masculine language silences the female voices where it reduces the female hesitation or their broken speech to a sign of deficiency. Furthermore, the study reveals that the act of stuttering marks as a form of resistance and reclamation of female identity. The two main female characters in both novels Reem and Helena, challenge the structure of the patriarchal society through out transforming their stuttering into a mode of resistance, subjectivity. This study claims that female stutterers in post-colonial Arab narratives disrupt the masculine discourse where their stuttering stands as a new form for calming female agency and identity. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11888/20573 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | جامعة النجاح الوطنية | |
| dc.supervisor | Prof. Abdel Karim Daragmeh | |
| dc.title | STUTTERING AND FEMALE AGENCY IN NAJWA BIN SHATWAN'S NOVEL CONCERTO CORINNA EDUARDO AND GHADA KHOURY’S NOVEL GIRL OF THUNDER | |
| dc.title.alternative | التأتأة وكينونة الأنثى في رواية نجوى بن شتوان كونشيرتو قورينا ادواردو ورواية طفلة الرعد للكاتبة طفلة الرعد |