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- Title
The View from here – The Challenges of Teaching Gender Issues in Drama at An-Najah National University.
- Authors
Hamamra, Bilal Tawfiq
- Abstract
Drawing on the challenges I have faced in my feminist analysis of Renaissance drama, this article sheds light on traditional approaches to teaching Othello in Palestine and the responses generated by my counter discussions of this domestic tragedy. My approach aims to reveal the destructive discourse of gossip, the objectification of women, and male refusal to listen to the female voice. While education is a means of emancipation and liberation within the Israeli-Palestinian context, I explore how the traditional way of teaching the play can advertently and inadvertently align with colonial strategies that stifle students' critical thinking and their potential to emancipate themselves from the network of oppressive traditions and in extension perpetuate the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
- Subjects
FEMINIST criticism; RENAISSANCE drama; THEATER critics; JAMI'AT al-Najah al-Wataniyah (Nablus); ACADEMIC discourse
- Publication
English: The Journal of the English Association, 2021, Vol 70, Issue 268, p4
- ISSN
0013-8215
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/english/efaa025