The two novels, Mona Enamouri’s A Chat Upon Thames (2014) and Elif Shafak’s Black Milk (2007), are autobiographical writings that depict the process of self-representation revealing a postmodern feminist interest in subject formation. Enamouri, on one hand, reflects on the self between places and voices revealing a construction of awareness and self-definition in reaction to external experiences. Shafak, on the other, interweaves a number of questions on female body and identity within the contextual struggle of patriarchical society and intrinsic emotional-personality struggles. Pregnancy and post-partum depression are discussed in line with questions of what it means to have a family, construct a book and determine self-worth. Negotiating a range of feminist thematic preoccupations with voice, spaces, and body the two novels unravel the critical function of feminist autobiographies in constructing the self from “discordant” voices through a dynamic process of self-representation through creation.
Alakhdar, Ghada Mohamad Ali. (2020). Literary Autobiography and Subject Formation: A Comparative Study of Mona Enamouri’s A Chat upon Thames and Elif Shafak’s Black Mil. مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه, 25(25 - الجزء الثالث), 1-30. doi: 10.21608/jwadi.2020.84950
MLA
Ghada Mohamad Ali Alakhdar. "Literary Autobiography and Subject Formation: A Comparative Study of Mona Enamouri’s A Chat upon Thames and Elif Shafak’s Black Mil", مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه, 25, 25 - الجزء الثالث, 2020, 1-30. doi: 10.21608/jwadi.2020.84950
HARVARD
Alakhdar, Ghada Mohamad Ali. (2020). 'Literary Autobiography and Subject Formation: A Comparative Study of Mona Enamouri’s A Chat upon Thames and Elif Shafak’s Black Mil', مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه, 25(25 - الجزء الثالث), pp. 1-30. doi: 10.21608/jwadi.2020.84950
VANCOUVER
Alakhdar, Ghada Mohamad Ali. Literary Autobiography and Subject Formation: A Comparative Study of Mona Enamouri’s A Chat upon Thames and Elif Shafak’s Black Mil. مجلة وادي النيل للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية والتربويه, 2020; 25(25 - الجزء الثالث): 1-30. doi: 10.21608/jwadi.2020.84950
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