The Social Dimensions of Women in Khawla Hamdi's Novels

Dr. Mahmoud Abdanan Mahdizadeh , Dr. Hassan Dadkhah Tehrani , Narges Hashemi 402-425

Abstract

    Women have a significant role to play in society, especially when it is related to novel, as they are an indispensable icon in the Arabic novel. This is because the writer treats women both externally and internally, describing her from the outside and analyzing her personality from the inside. Therefore, this study aims to reflect on the image of women in the Arabic novel, where the issue of women preoccupied the pens of Arab male and female writers, including the Tunisian novelist Khawla Hamdi. The woman came in her novels with various synonyms of mother, love, beloved, and worker to bear the meanings of motherhood, tenderness, modesty, beauty, determination, and shouldering heavy responsibilities. The writer, Khawla Hamdi, tried through her novels to prove her active presence in the society and in literature alike, by publishing her ideas literary, to prove her objectivity and her ability to give a different view of culture through the process of literary creativity. Through this study, we concluded that women were able to realize their creative and effective personality, which influences Tunisian thought as well as literature.
Keywords: woman, novel, Khawla Hamdi