Lesbianism as Another Alternative for the Other:

Literature of the Bed, including female homosexuality, is spreading in the Arab library in an intensive way. It can be considered a sign of the dominance of the Neo-liberal thoughts on the Arab socio-linguistic awareness in the current period. The main issue in this literature is not its distinction in its narration or daring description of normal or abnormal sexual intercourse, nor in its description of sexual practice as an expression of social culture and relations, but in its definition of the concept of 'freedom' as an issue of personal freedom, first and foremost. The man's interest as a male in Saudi Arabian novels during the last decade has entrapped the Saudi Arabian women writers and this interest has probably harmed their experience in novel-writing. It has made some Saudi Arabian women writers think that it is easy to write novels that depend on revealing the hidden at the expense of artistic aesthetics and narrative form and structure of the novel. The novel of al-Akarun/ The Others is considered one of the most exciting novels in the Arab society in general.

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A Dra. Hanan Bishara é uma conferencista, académica e ativista social árabe. Obteve o seu doutoramento na Universidade de Haifa em Língua e Literatura Árabes. A sua tese é sobre a escritora egípcia Nawal al-Sa'dawi. A Dra. Bishara é conhecida como intelectual, académica e ativista dos direitos das mulheres na sociedade árabe.