The representation of muslim woman in the popular literature and its impact on the czech public
Vol.6,No.1(2015)
The literary market in the Czech republic was gutted with a specific kind of so called muslim women novels during the past decades. This genre became enormly popular, particularly after the tragedy of 9/11 2001. Typicaly, the stories depict the women as a victims of cruel patriarchal system of muslim countries and are reproduced in many variations. The popularity of such books attributes to creation and/or confirmation of prejustices against muslim cultures as a whole. The study focusses on the impact of muslim women novels and memoirs on czech public, via analysis of reder´s comments left on the czech reader server www.databazeknih.cz.
orientalism; muslim woman; women novels; memoirs; islamophoby
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