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Writing Assignment 3
Influence of Socio-Political Dynamics on Gender and Forms of Resistance in MENA Literature

Length: 3-4 pages or 5-7 pages if working with a classmate (MLA format: Times New Roman, 12 points, double-
spaced)

Secondary Sources: A minimum of four secondary sources is required. At least two of these sources should be
articles from the library database.

Description:
In this assignment, you will explore how literature from the MENA region engages with socio-political dynamics
related to gender and resistance. Choose a text from the course and analyze how the author addresses the
intersection of law, religion, and cultural traditions with gender and societal expectations. Consider how characters
navigate these socio-political dynamics and how their experiences reflect or challenge existing laws and societal
norms. Additionally, examine how the literature provides a voice for marginalized individuals and critiques the
structures that perpetuate gender inequality. Your analysis should be supported by a minimum of four academic
secondary sources, which will help to contextualize your discussion and provide a deeper understanding of the
external and internal factors influencing the text.

Alternative Options:
Students may opt to create a professional video or podcast instead of writing an essay, particularly if they are
incorporating multimedia sources. However, they must still submit a script and a works cited page to ensure proper
academic documentation.

Objectives:

Analyze the relationship between socio-political dynamics, gender, and literature in MENA contexts.
Investigate how external and internal factors influence the portrayal of characters and narratives in MENA
literature.
Demonstrate an understanding of how literature can serve as a form of resistance against oppressive social
systems, supported by academic research.
Answer the question: What are the forms of resistance in MENA literature and what is the role of literature in
subverting the heteronormative gender representation.

General Guidelines
The title of your paper must reflect the interpretive problem you intend to discuss and your argument. The
reaction, interpretive problem, and argument must be your own and if in the process you oppose or agree with
other views, they should be acknowledged.
To demonstrate your thoughts and reaction to your chosen text(s), you may include evidence and examples
from the same text(s). You may also use background readings, other texts about the historical/cultural
conditions referred to in the text you are examining, literary criticism, and literary conventions. You may also use
the secondary readings from the course or your peer's presentations or elsewhere to contextualize your
perception of the literary work(s) you are discussing. For this reason, and in order to provide proof for your case
or claims against other interpretations, you have to draw evidence of your own or others of the same text.
It is beneficial to assume that your reader has read the text and therefore you do not need to summarize the
text; you only need very little summary. Each paper should not be shorter than three pages (excluding the
Works Cited page) and double-spaced. Use the MLA style of notation and documentation and use it correctly
and consistently.
You may discuss your topics, outline, methodology, and paper to get the most feedback possible. Students are
encouraged, but not required to discuss their topics, methodology, and outline of each paper with me as early
as possible.
Your papers may reflect any of the following:
your personal response to the literary work and issues related to gender relationships, challenges to
archetypal social values, patriarchy, violence against women, crude sexuality, and male power in general
patterns of dominance and submission, cultural change, or any other gender-related concern.
You may also address aesthetic aspects of the literary work that distinguish it from the common literary
practices of otherwise male-dominated literary communities. To do this, you need to define that aspect well
and then argue a case for the meaning, ideology, and conflicts in one or more texts. You need to establish a
precise focus and a related interpretive problem within the text(s)you have chosen. Your point (or argument),
the proof of the validity of your argument will constitute the investigative explanations the focus, and the
problem you chose in the beginning.

Points 200

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