A Woman’s Struggle for Identity and Existence: A Critical Study of Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma

Abstract

Abstract

This paper attempts to critically trace the Arab woman fugitive who flees from what the so-called backward world to the so-called modern and civilized world. It is a loss in a hypocrite world where in each part of it people assume humanity and coexistence. However, the real truth is that each person is a racist and ethnic against the other. The paper examines the postcolonial text that reveals the instill gap of racism and inferiority of East to the West. Gaining the Western identity by an Easterner is not an end of abusing and disdaining, it is also a new door for a new name of discrimination. It investigates the writer’s fragile identity for feeling guilty towards herself, her family, her society, her religion and that she deserves honor killing. However, her new identity does not give her peace and happy life. Being a woman in a western country means to be ready for selling your body to sustain yourself and your dependents