Burned Alive
Burned Alive is the true story of Souad, a young Palestinian woman who survived an attempted honor killing carried out by her brother-in-law. This autobiography, documented by Marie-Thérèse Cuny and translated from the French by Judith S. Armbruster, is narrated in such a way that the readers can d...
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oai:doaj.org-article:b445faddd7ff448a9d397fb6a8e5dcc52021-12-02T17:49:41ZBurned Alive10.35632/ajis.v23i4.15912690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/b445faddd7ff448a9d397fb6a8e5dcc52006-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1591https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Burned Alive is the true story of Souad, a young Palestinian woman who survived an attempted honor killing carried out by her brother-in-law. This autobiography, documented by Marie-Thérèse Cuny and translated from the French by Judith S. Armbruster, is narrated in such a way that the readers can develop a familiarity with the complicated dimension of gender roles, the prevalence of asymmetrical standards of male and female morality in misogynistic societies, and their impact on women. The plot develops in a way designed to inform the reader that honor killing, although outwardly practiced as a customary punishment for an illicit sexual relationship, is, in reality, a brutal form of female suppression. The book, divided into five parts, covers two different stages of Souad’s life. Now forty-five, the first phase of her life took place in a small West Bank village where, at the age of eighteen, she experienced the atrocity of an attempted honor killing because she had had premarital sexual relationships with a man. Through an aid worker named Jacqueline, Souad miraculously survived and was moved to Europe, where she began the second phase of her life. She now lives with a loving husband and three children, following her tryst with death, twenty-four operations, and innumerable excruciatingly painful recovery procedures ... Maleeha AslamInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 23, Iss 4 (2006) |
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Burned Alive is the true story of Souad, a young Palestinian woman who
survived an attempted honor killing carried out by her brother-in-law. This
autobiography, documented by Marie-Thérèse Cuny and translated from
the French by Judith S. Armbruster, is narrated in such a way that the readers
can develop a familiarity with the complicated dimension of gender
roles, the prevalence of asymmetrical standards of male and female morality in misogynistic societies, and their impact on women. The plot develops
in a way designed to inform the reader that honor killing, although outwardly
practiced as a customary punishment for an illicit sexual relationship,
is, in reality, a brutal form of female suppression.
The book, divided into five parts, covers two different stages of Souad’s
life. Now forty-five, the first phase of her life took place in a small West
Bank village where, at the age of eighteen, she experienced the atrocity of
an attempted honor killing because she had had premarital sexual relationships
with a man. Through an aid worker named Jacqueline, Souad miraculously
survived and was moved to Europe, where she began the second
phase of her life. She now lives with a loving husband and three children,
following her tryst with death, twenty-four operations, and innumerable
excruciatingly painful recovery procedures ...
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