Obscene Literature in Womens Writings: Salwa al-Novel Nuaymis of Burhn al-Asal

ABSTRACT

The need to learn more about the female body predates the dawn of recorded history, but the masculine perspective has long held sway and been subjected to its dictates. The woman has been present in the inherited texts as an alternate to defect, sin, and taboos, which led her image to appear in the literary texts as a receiver of actions rather than an active doer. A womans writing that emerges from her body is referred to as Writing the Body. In her book Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva invented the term (1984). Womens awareness of their own bodies, their desire to be autonomous, and their fight against repressive authorities became a focus of creativity in contemporary times because of this shift in the role of the body in feminist culture. In order to protest men oppression of women, the body of a womans writing is present, leading to a focus on feminist texts. Womens creativity began betting on uncovering the practises that are exerted on the body of women, or on exposing the reduction of women to a body, or even on destroying the idea of shackling and convicting the body of women in opposition to the freedom given to men to express what they feel and desire from the body of women. This is how womens creativity began. The body and senses of the lady were prominent themes in a number of Arab novels of this genre. Salwa al Nuaymi, a Syrian author, has written a novel titled Burhn al-Asal / The Proof of the Honey (2007). When it comes to body and senses culture, this novel is seen as a new beginning. This was the novels major wager, and it was an expression of the womans desire to change the type of interaction between her and the mans power and to annihilate his virility.

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