Rethinking East-West borders: cultural encounters, narrative and trespassing in Fatema Menissi’s writings
The article focuses on the reflections of feminist writer and activist Fatema Mernissi. It addresses Mernissi´s critical engagements with the theme of cultural encounters and boundaries and her attempts to answer the question: What is at stake in thinking and writing between East and West? And also,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD) |
| Repositorio: | Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/11547 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/moncoes/article/view/11547 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | cultural encounters Fatema Mernissi non-Western feminism. Encontros culturais. Fatema Mernissi. Feminismo não-Ocidental. |
| Sumario: | The article focuses on the reflections of feminist writer and activist Fatema Mernissi. It addresses Mernissi´s critical engagements with the theme of cultural encounters and boundaries and her attempts to answer the question: What is at stake in thinking and writing between East and West? And also, on how different responses to such questions might offer different frameworks for a decolonial approach aiming at a “double critique” in the face of totalizing knowledge – whether Western or non-Western – without the setback of effacing one´s locus of enunciation and experience of resistance of marginal subjects – here, Muslim women more specifically. In this way, I intend to explore a specific aspect of Mernissi’s work, namely, her use of creative narrative strategies mixing autobiography and fiction in attempting to set conditions for challenging dominant representations of the Orient and to promote “transcoding” – i.e. the construction of new meanings over ancient established ones aiming to expose the violent dimensions of cultural encounters, but also rethinking the possibilities of engaging and dialogue with difference. |
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