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Autobiographical Fantasia: Kingston's The Woman Warrior And El Telmissany's Dunyazad, Marwa Mohammad Nur Eldin Ismail Elnaggar

Archived Theses and Dissertations

The thesis analyzes the use of imagination in two autobiographical works by two women authors, a Chinese-American and an Egyptian-Arab, respectively: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and May El Telmissany's Dunyazad. A definition of autobiography as a literary genre is explored through the critical debate between different scholars. In this debate, the fundamental nature of autobiography and its parameters are central issues. Several questions are posed-such as the degree of importance that truth has in determining how autobiographical a specific work is.

Both The Woman Warrior ( 1976) and Dunyazad ( 1997) are introduced

within the framework of this …