عنوان

The Faculty of Discernment

Number

TL49462

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Faculty of Discernment

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Nahida S. Nisa

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Moriarty, Thomas

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

San Jose State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

319

Text of Note

Committee members: Rycenga, Jennifer; Taylor, Nicholas

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-06858-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.F.A.

Discipline of degree

Creative Writing

Body granting the degree

San Jose State University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

There is a hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad that advises a woman should not travel alone longer than two days and three nights. To travel alone, therefore, is a feminist act. The Faculty of Discernment is a collection of feminist travel vignettes compiled according to the suggestion that a woman who travels, in spite of its dangers, is a revolutionary. The work chronicles routine life in each city it features, introducing a local character who meets her network, her culture, and social norms with an analytical eye, employing the faculty of discernment . The collection is sectioned into seven major divisions separated by interludes. "Naogaon" identifies the narrator as living in the United States and struggling with the pressures in a "broken" household and isolation. In "Cape Town," she travels to South Africa after receiving a wedding invitation from a friend who is challenging a local mosque's refusal to allow her to recite her own wedding vows. In "Beirut," the narrator is invited to a second wedding, in which the bride is marrying a man outside of her religious sect and must confront sectarianism in Lebanon. In "Paris," the narrator describes her experiences with sexism and racism at the age of sixteen during a stay in France. Meanwhile, in "Ruby Avenue," she struggles to desegregate her local mosque. She visits a friend in "Santiago," and the two discuss the local impacts of colonialism. Finally, in "The Bay," the narrator has partially recovered from her feelings of estrangement and begins to connect to her own network of local friends.

Creative writing; British and Irish literature

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Communication and the arts;Decolonialism;Exegesis;Feminism;Friendship;Islam;Travel

Islam, Sharif

Moriarty, Thomas

Subdivision

Creative Writing

San Jose State University

Call Number

1928875923; 10285922

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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