5/25/2023 0 Comments The map of love by ahdaf soueif![]() Both Soueif and Faqir carefully portray their Western characters in a way that reflects the two novelists' astute artistic and creative powers. ![]() Overall, negative representations of some Westerners are certainly counterpoised by positive depictions of some others. ![]() In her representation of Westerners, Soueif aims at producing a Western voice which speaks for the colonized against the colonizer while Faqir aims at highlighting her protagonist's mental and psychological dilemma as a vulnerable refugee through her interactions with various Western characters. Specifically, this paper investigates how Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love and Fadia Faqir's My Name is Salma ambivalently depict Western characters. ![]() This study investigates how Westerners are portrayed in the works of two Arab British women writers. Moreover, one can find both favorable and unfavorable representations of Western characters in the same literary work. In this context, one may suggest that the portrayal of Westerners by Arab British women writers may be described as ambivalent as some writers represent them favorably while others depict them in unfavorable ways. European and American characters have been rendered differently from one period to another and from one Arab writer to another. Western characters are quite prominent in the works of Arab novelists in diaspora since the events of these novels are mainly set in European and American urban spaces. ![]()
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