File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2003/postcolonial.0309, message 108


From: "mona cico" <jubjubi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: An Iraqi woman writes from Baghdad
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:17:58 -0400


To answer your question: As critics, you may have learned how to read the 
tone/language/voice/blah blah in text.:


for e.g.:
"
I’m an example of a modern-day, Iraqi female who is a part of a tribe- I’ve 
never met our sheikh- I’ve never needed to… I have a university degree, I 
had a job and I have a family who would sacrifice a lot to protect me… and 
none of this hinders me from having ambition or a sense of obligation 
towards law and order. I also want democracy, security, and a civil, healthy 
society… right along with the strong family bonds I'm accustomed to as an 
Iraqi.

Who knows? Maybe I’ll start a tribal blog and become a virtual sheikh 
myself…"

I think you might know that there is a feminine substitute for "sheikh" in 
Arabic. Also, if the writer were a woman, she would think differently.



>From: Salwa Ghaly <sghaly-AT-sharjah.ac.ae>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
>To: "'postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU '" 
><postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
>Subject: RE: An Iraqi woman writes from Baghdad
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:07:25 +0400
>
>What's a "rather manly" voice, if I may ask?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mona cico
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
>Sent: 9/29/03 8:02 PM
>Subject: Re: An Iraqi woman writes from Baghdad
>
>
>
>Iraqi are usually very good in English. But, you brought a good point
>that I
>have not noticed before. It is true the "Girl"'s English and esp.
>American
>slang is very good. In these few textes, there is no Arabic
>interference,
>not even in the images she gives. Also, the text's voice seems to  be
>rather
>manly. What do you think?
>
> >From: "Horn Of Africa" <g_petros-AT-hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> >To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> >Subject: An Iraqi woman writes from Baghdad
> >Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:10:15 +0000
> >
> >
> >
> >http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_riverbendblog_archive.html
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