When the Subaltern Speaks: Feminine Narrative Performance in Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire and Issam El-Yousfi’s Tears with Alcohol

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Associate Professor Faculty of Alsun Minia University-Egypt

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This paper is a cultural comparative study which investigates how the narrative performance of the women protagonists in Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire and Issam El-Yousfi’s Tears with Alcohol gives them voice to fight subalternity. Drawing on the critical framework of Gayatri Shakravorty Spivak’s essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and her book A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, this paper examines the subjectivities and the misrepresentation of the women protagonists by decoding the tropes, traces, and marginalization by which cultural hegemony distorts and misrepresents Iraqi and Moroccan women. Further, it throws new light on how theatre emboldens women to speak up against the patriarchal suppression, religious fanaticism and the crimes committed against them from both the colonizers and the national rulers alike.

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