Research Question: How does the gender, socio-economic status, historical background, and/or nationality of an author of Muslim literature affect the individual's portrayal of women within their works?
Research:
* each authors' background/history
* basic history of each country and important historical events
* the feminist movement within the three different countries (historical and contemporary)
* current political status of women (going along with feminism) as well as overview of Muslim law w/regards to gender relations
* other social factors that may contribute to portrayal (social class, race, religion, etc.)
* thorough reading and analysis of each novel
* later discussions and interviews with the authors about their works and ideas
* reading of critical reviews and articles on the novelists and their works (JSTOR & other scholarly articles)
* possibly the psychological and philosophical factors regarding the social construct of "women" within the minds of the authors and general population
Theories:
* feminism
* possibly psychology and the formation of social constructs within a population
Discussion:
* brief history of authors and their countries
* the ways in which different female characters are portrayed throughout the novels
* the authors' "actual" stance on the treatment and portrayal of women within the Muslim culture (based on his/her personal background, personal portrayal of women within their work, tone of their writing with regards to women's roles, and possibly later interviews and discussion of their own works and ideas)
* comparison of the differences between the portrayal of women within the different works, and possible reasons for such differences (social constructs, history (personal and national), gender, nationality of author, etc.)
* other scholars' thoughts and criticisms of each work
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