Bodies of Water, Archives of Trauma: Hydrofeminist Reading and Fluid Feminist Agency in Shokoofeh Azar's the Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree.
This article offers a hydrofeminist reading of Shokoofeh Azar's The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, employing Astrida Neimanis's theory of watery embodiment to illuminate the novel's magic-realist exploration of trauma, memory, and feminist resistance in post-1979 Iran. By analysing the text's...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 40; no. 126; pp. 507 - 521 |
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