The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives
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This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El
Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking
Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness
play an important role in the writing of autobiographies. The focus is
on showing how El Saadawi’s positioning as a feminist activist in Egypt and
Ahmed’s location in the USA determine the texts’ themes and shape the
construction of the autobiographical “I.”