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A 9 page analysis of 2 books that offer coming of age narratives of 2 authors who grew up in Islamic cultures. Leila Ahmed in A Border Passage and Marjane Satrapi in Persepolis offer their readers autobiographical narratives that examine the complex and intertwined relationships between imperialism, gender and Islam. Examination of these two autobiographies offers Western readers insight into the complex political, social and religious factors that affected both women in regards to gender and identity during their formative years. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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offers Western readers insight into the complex political, social and religious factors that affected both women in regards to gender and identity during their formative years. Each book is
basically a coming of age narrative that indicates each authors growing awareness of the worlds they inhabit. The very early childhood of both authors is presented in idealized terms but
as turmoil rocks the world of each girl, she becomes aware of the problems that confront not only her own family, but her society and country as a whole. However,
the historical and cultural context of each text is quite different. Ahmed was born in 1940 in Cairo and much of Ahmeds childhood occurred prior to Egypts independence from
Great Britain. In 1952, King Farouk was deposed in a bloodless revolution and, initially, the aims of the revolution promised a better life for Egyptian citizens as it promised political
reform, an end to corruption, societal injustices and poverty. In 1956, the Egyptian Prime Minister, Abdel Nasser, initiated a program to construct a dam that would control the Niles annual
flood. Ahmeds father, a noted engineer, opposed the dam and, even though his concerns proved to be well-founded, he was harassed by authorities and had his assets frozen. It is
through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on one side by the political ramifications
of his stance against the High Dam and on the other by the prejudice of British culture that feared the emergence of a educated, skilled class of Egyptian professionals, which
is a factor that affected her father greatly as a young man. Similarly, Satrapis memoir recounts a childhood marred by a politically tumultuous period, as her childhood was highly
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