title: My Qarina, my self: The homoerotic as Islamic feminism in Alifa Rifaat's "My World of the Unknown".
abstract: In Alifa Rifaat's "My World of the Unknown," the female narrator's homoerotic encounter with a djinn functions as a radical brand of Islamic feminism that challenges Arabo-Islamic cultural perceptions of female sexuality as threatening. Rifaat reinterprets Islamic teachings and Arabic folklore to show how women's sexuality must be revered rather than feared.
authors.affiliation: English Department, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina 27410, USA. abdod@guilford.edu
authors.forename: Diya M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Abdo
mesh_terms: D018643:Arab World; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007514:Islam; D033262:Narration; D012071:Religion and Sex; D012938:Social Perception; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology*; D016387:Women's Health / Q000208:ethnology*