![]() Eventually she wins the Quran competition. To challenge this hegemony, Nidali registers for the competition and prepare herself by repeating and memorizing the Quran. In this sense, this novel critiques the way patriarchal Muslims like Baba who tends to underestimate women including his own daughter by adding just one more letter for Nidali’s, instead of creating a new female name for his daughter.Īnother example of how this novel questions patriarchal Muslim men is through the way the narrator describes Nidali’s teacher at her madrasah that only involves male students with the Quran competition. After realizing that his baby is a girl he just adds the letter “I” at the end of the baby’s name: Nidali. When she was born, her father, Baba, has prepared a boy name, Nidal, meaning jihad as Baba want to have a son instead of a daughter. Indeed, this novel explores personal development of Nidali starting when she was born at Elizabeth hospital Boston Massachusetts in the early 1980s. ![]() Since conducting the several journeys is the characteristics of the bildungsroman form, Jarrar’s novel can be categorized as a buildung novel. Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home tells a story of Nidali who move from Kuwait to Egypt, and then to the US. ![]()
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