so you have to write 5 pages in total the main paper is 4 pages and the fifth page pleas write me the paper theses.
Use the following prompts as a starting point for constructing a solid, argumentative essay. You will need to build upon the prompt to create a focused argument that addresses a particular theme or issue in each text. In your paper, you must engage at least ONE theoretical piece that we have read in class: Saree Makdisi’s Postcolonial Literature in a Neocolonial World, Timothy Mitchell’s Heritage and Violence, Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse, or Lila Abu Lughod’s Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?
Your paper should be 4-6 pages in length, use 12-point Times New Roman font, be double spaced, and have one-inch margins. Your paper must have a strong thesis that is supported by specific, concrete, textual examples. In other words, you must make an argument!
Consider the narrative strategies of Naguib Mahfouz’s Miramar in relation to the character of Zahra. As an object of desire for the rest of the characters in the novel, what does her lack of voice suggest about the way the peasant is imagined? What does this suggest about the construction of notions of “nationhood” and national identity and the ways they are policed and constructed? Refer, in your essay, to Timothy Mitchell’s essay “Heritage and Violence” and his theorizations of nationalism and national identity.
Hanan Al Shaykh’s novel The Story of Zahra is an interiorized, first person narrative told from the perspective of Zahra, a young girl from southern Lebanon. As a novel that fundamentally rewrites and reconceptualizes the image of the Arab woman in the Arabic literary tradition, its central thematic concerns deal with the question of gender and social inequality. Consider how the character of Zahra is portrayed in the context of her society, and in particular, in the context of the war. How is her madness portrayed in the beginning of the novel and in the en
