The Social Oppression of Women and its Representations in The Monodramatic Texts of Safaa Al-Baili

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Ali Majeed Abbood, Dr. Huda Hashim AL-Rubae

Abstract

Oppression is a concept known to human since ancient times, and it is related to societies in general and to human in particular, the motives, means, and goals that cause it differ, and thus the results caused by it differ too. Whether the expression of this behavior is violence, authoritarianism, or force, they all refer to one content, which is oppression, oppression depicts the apparent and observed behavior that aims to inflict harm on the other.


This research is concerned with the study of social oppression in the monodramatic texts of Safaa Al-Baili, as it is divided into two parts: the first section dealt with the topic of social oppression, and the second section dealt with representations of oppression in the monodramatic texts globally, Arab and Iraqi, as the research is being into four chapters, the first chapter is devoted to determine the research problem, which was identified by the following question: How was the writer Safaa Al-Baili able to embody the social oppression of women in her monodramatic texts?


The importance of the research liesĀ  by highlighting its monodrama topic and studying the monodramatic texts of the writer Safaa Al-Baili and identifying the most important social issues that she dealt with. This chapter included the aim of the research, which was based on identifying the social oppression of women and its representations in the monodramatic texts of Safaa Al-Baili.


The chapter contained the limits of the research that were defined spatially in the monodramatic texts of the writer Safaa Al-Baili in Egypt, temporally in the monodramatic texts for the period of time (2010-2015) and objectively is the study of social oppression in the monodramatic texts of the writer Safaa Al-Baili. The second chapter contains the theoretical framework and has It included two sections, the first one specialized in studying the concept of social oppression. The second topic was concerned with studying social oppression in the monodramatic text (globally, Arab and Iraqi). The chapter concluded with the most important indicators that resulted from the theoretical framework.


As for the third chapter, it is for the research procedures that included defining the research community according to the two temporal and spatial periods that were included within the limits of the research. As for the research sample, the text of the play (Half Day) was selected in (2015) in an intentional manner and based on the indicators that came from the theoretical framework as a research tool. The study concludes in the fourth chapter a number of findings reached by the researcher, and in total, the texts revealed social oppression that occurs to individuals as a result of the many stresses on them, whether within the family or from the unjust society. This chapter also included conclusions, recommendations, suggestions and a list of Arab and foreign sources and references.

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