Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers

There has been a great concern among Muslim teachers of English on the need to study English literary texts from the Islamic perspectives. But how does one Islamize literary texts written in English by non-Muslims? Will this not be another hegemony of one ideology over the other? There also are conc...

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Main Author:	Abdul Manaf, Nor Faridah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IIUM Press 2000
Subjects:	PN Literature (General)
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spelling	iium-326792016-07-18T03:27:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/32679/ Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers Abdul Manaf, Nor Faridah PN Literature (General) There has been a great concern among Muslim teachers of English on the need to study English literary texts from the Islamic perspectives. But how does one Islamize literary texts written in English by non-Muslims? Will this not be another hegemony of one ideology over the other? There also are concerns among Muslim scholars about the position of Western literary criticisms among which is feminism, which is seen as a Western import, out to corrupt the Muslim world. What is clear here is the existence of distrust of one cultural force against the other. This paper claims to explore the impact of creative encounters between Islamic criticism and feminism. The Islamic reading of English literary texts (Malaysian Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers women's writing) serves as a model to deconstruct meanings in the texts to suit local sensibility and sensitivity. It is also to dispel the popular believe that Islam will clash with any ideology and civilisation. IIUM Press 2000 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/32679/3/32679_-_Islamizing_the_Feminine%2C_Feminist_and_Female_Voices_in_three_Malaysian_Short_Stories_by_Anglophone_Women_Writers.pdf Abdul Manaf, Nor Faridah (2000) Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers. Intellectual Discourse, 8 (2). pp. 223-236. ISSN 0128-4878 E-ISSN 2289-5639 http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/493
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description	There has been a great concern among Muslim teachers of English on the need to study English literary texts from the Islamic perspectives. But how does one Islamize literary texts written in English by non-Muslims? Will this not be another hegemony of one ideology over the other? There also are concerns among Muslim scholars about the position of Western literary criticisms among which is feminism, which is seen as a Western import, out to corrupt the Muslim world. What is clear here is the existence of distrust of one cultural force against the other. This paper claims to explore the impact of creative encounters between Islamic criticism and feminism. The Islamic reading of English literary texts (Malaysian Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers women's writing) serves as a model to deconstruct meanings in the texts to suit local sensibility and sensitivity. It is also to dispel the popular believe that Islam will clash with any ideology and civilisation.
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title	Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers
title_short	Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers
title_full	Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers
title_fullStr	Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers
title_full_unstemmed	Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers
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Islamizing the "feminine, feminist and female" voices in three Malaysian short stories by Anglophone women writers

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