TY - EJOUR A1 - Wehbe, Talal TI - Male playfulness and feminist irony - Ṣāhibat al-dār Šahrazād by Ḥanān Al-Šayḫ T2 - LiCArC - Littérature et culture arabes contemporaines 2020, n° 8. L’humour engagé et contestataire dans l’espace arabe contemporain JO - LiCArC (ISSN 2426-8852), 8, 2020 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10937-2.p.0017 SN - 2426-8852 SP - 17 EP - 29 AB - Suffering combined with female subordination, and playfulness combined with male domination are the two semic molecules that run through Ḥanān Al- Šayḫ’s Ṣāhibat al-dār Šahrazād. The link between playfulness and power typified by One Thousand and One Nights is hijacked in a process of ruptures offset by irony as a discursive strategy. Feminist in nature through its focus on the abuses of patriarchal authority, this approach can be attributed to the implicit female author. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/23 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - Ḥanān Al- Šayḫ, gender issues, irony, discursive strategy, feminism LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/licarc-2020-litterature-et-culture-arabes-contemporaines-n-8-l-humour-engage-et-contestataire-dans-l-espace-arabe-contemporain-male-playfulness-and-feminist-irony.html Y2 - 2024/07/08 ER -