2021-02-16 at 16:54:35
Jillian Curr from University of Western Australia
will present Honour and Muslim Masculinities in Elif Shafak’s Honour
Abstract
In post 9/11 honour crimes are often associated with Muslim patriarchal societies, however, Elif Shafak’s more nuanced exploration of gender in Kurdish/Turkish traditional communities provide the background to a changing landscape between modernity and tradition, extremism and Sufism. This paper will investigate the role of performative subordinate and hegemonic masculinities in the production of honour and belonging and Muslim-ness. Keywords: masculinities, honour, Muslim-ness, identity
In section
British and Commonwealth Literature