TheThousand and one nights and the issue of gender
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2014
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The thousand and one night known as the arabian night and is universally renown piece of writing and it is in fact, the central point in our discussion of gender and feminism as a reflection of Arabic society. My work also is concerned with the history of the narratology and the story telling art since the manuscript was first transmitted oraly. This scrutiny tends to illustrate the widespread controversial issue 'gender' within the stories of the most important fiction story "nights" known as 'the porter and the three ladies in Baghdad'or to investigate the image of women's inferiority in fiction and reality in the past. Also the thesis deals with gender equality between men and women in middle east and western world, since we live in Islamic world, to be obvious there should be equality between them. So my thesis tends to analyze the role of gender and class in the thousand and one night. as well as discuss what gender roles mean to culture, and what is important is to discuss the female character in the story of the porter and three ladies and to improve their power upon men also freedom in muslim society, though most of the stories deal with the control of men over women.
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Novel : Arabian night