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Hijab, Islam, and the Voice of the Subaltern [Import]- Dozent/in
- Mahbub Alam, M.A.
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:00 - 18:00, FL2/01.01
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2020, 10:00 - 25.04.2020, 23:59 (NEW)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- Women are being infringed, marginalized and discriminated in the liberal West as well as in the conservative Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran based on whether they wear the hijab or not. In France, women face financial penalty for wearing the Muslim head covering in schools and on beaches. Contrastingly, in Saudi Arabia and Iran they are fined and even arrested for not wearing the hijab. In these instances, women fall into a subaltern category where against the will of the politicians they are helpless and cannot decide for themselves what to wear and what not to wear.
Muslim women are often presented in the Western media as either an oppressed class or a threat to the national identity. Thus, the veil is perceived as a symbol of oppression and in the name of secular liberalism and national security many European countries have adopted policies to control the hijab in the public sphere. However, no such steps have been taken to control religious symbols for men, such as the skull cap or beard.
Restriction on wearing hijab means a restriction of free will for those who choose to abide by traditional Islamic practices. On the other hand, forcing women to wear the garments they do not like to wear is a blatant act of sabotage to their liberty. In Minaret Leila Aboulela presents the life of a Muslim woman who reconstructs religion in her life. Through the depiction of the religious transformation of Najwa, the protagonist of the novel, Aboulela breaks the Western stereotypes of Muslim women. Najwa is not submissive to any man and makes her own choices. She goes to the Mosque and puts on Islamic dress including the hijab of her free will. Her religious transformation brings a new meaning of life to herself. She finds protection, peace and strength in Islam. On the contrary, Azar Nafisi finds political Islam oppressing. She had to leave her job because she did not comply with the Iranian law of head covering. Like Nafisi there are women in the Islamic world who are forced to wear the hijab.
In this seminar we will critically analyze Minaret and Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books and discuss the problems of hindering women from wearing the hijab in the West and forcing them to wear it in the conservative Islamic countries.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Aboulela, Leila. Minaret. 2005.
Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. 2003.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien / Centre for Interreligious Studies der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (ZIS)
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