Chapterization:
The thesis is divided into an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion.
Introduction:
The introduction will present all the necessary definitions, theories and background information that are needed in the analysis of the selected works of art. In this section, the researcher will introduce essential topics, like trauma, historical, social, political backgrounds and the theoretical concepts needed. Moreover, this part of the study will provide elaborate background information regarding the history of Arab women writer's literature and the background of the four selected authors. In other words, the introduction will introduce the three elements that would be tackled: the literary theories, the literary texts and the context …show more content…
Theirs is a realm of memory, loss, exile and war colored by transitory moments of happiness and a desperate longing to belong, "[t]omorrow I will pack my bags and hope to run away again and find you in that place where my soul’s secrets remain, somewhere from which there is no further to go, somewhere home" (Jarrar 101). The last sentence of Aida, one of Jarrar’s protagonists, thus summarizes the protagonists' desperate need to belong and fit in. The novel successfully merges time and space to echo the book's main concerns; memory and home. Somewhere, Home is divided into three sections, each of which centers on one heroine’s attempt to reconcile with her present, with her past and ultimately with herself. This narrative style motivates the reader to piece together the stories and to rethink this war from different perspectives, thus deconstructs the one-dimensional outlook of war …show more content…
The return to her own roots makes her start to reflect on the lives of her grandmother, aunt and mother, "[n]ow, years after they have all gone, as Beirut smoulders in war against itself, I have returned to the mountain to collect memories of the lives that wandered through this house as though my own depended on it" (Jarrar 24). The brutality of the Civil War forces Aida, the protagonist of the second section, into exile. Away from Beirut, away from home, Aida remains in touch with her childhood through the figure of Amou Mohammad, a Palestinian refugee her sisters and she had known during their pre-war youth. The last section relates the memories of a now-infirm Salwa from the Australian hospital where she is being taken care
The thesis is divided into an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion.
Introduction:
The introduction will present all the necessary definitions, theories and background information that are needed in the analysis of the selected works of art. In this section, the researcher will introduce essential topics, like trauma, historical, social, political backgrounds and the theoretical concepts needed. Moreover, this part of the study will provide elaborate background information regarding the history of Arab women writer's literature and the background of the four selected authors. In other words, the introduction will introduce the three elements that would be tackled: the literary theories, the literary texts and the context …show more content…
Theirs is a realm of memory, loss, exile and war colored by transitory moments of happiness and a desperate longing to belong, "[t]omorrow I will pack my bags and hope to run away again and find you in that place where my soul’s secrets remain, somewhere from which there is no further to go, somewhere home" (Jarrar 101). The last sentence of Aida, one of Jarrar’s protagonists, thus summarizes the protagonists' desperate need to belong and fit in. The novel successfully merges time and space to echo the book's main concerns; memory and home. Somewhere, Home is divided into three sections, each of which centers on one heroine’s attempt to reconcile with her present, with her past and ultimately with herself. This narrative style motivates the reader to piece together the stories and to rethink this war from different perspectives, thus deconstructs the one-dimensional outlook of war …show more content…
The return to her own roots makes her start to reflect on the lives of her grandmother, aunt and mother, "[n]ow, years after they have all gone, as Beirut smoulders in war against itself, I have returned to the mountain to collect memories of the lives that wandered through this house as though my own depended on it" (Jarrar 24). The brutality of the Civil War forces Aida, the protagonist of the second section, into exile. Away from Beirut, away from home, Aida remains in touch with her childhood through the figure of Amou Mohammad, a Palestinian refugee her sisters and she had known during their pre-war youth. The last section relates the memories of a now-infirm Salwa from the Australian hospital where she is being taken care