Description

The Muslim female protagonists in the selected novels, Ahdaf Souif's Aisha (1983), Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003), Monica Aly's Brick Lane (2004) and Mohja Kahf's The Girl in Tangerine Scarf (2006), have passed through the same circumstances in the different communities they moved to. The novels show the sufferings women face in their lives especially from the male characters surrounding them. All the women in the novels have suppressed shouts that need to be released, but they are unable to do so because of the oppression imposed upon them. They struggle throughout their lives for their emancipation whether in their native countries or when they immigrate to other countries. They seem to be exposed to the same problems that face them. All female characters are like caged birds waiting eagerly for their emancipation into the vast space to fill the universe with their happy shouts, otherwise in their cages they just die in silence.