Date of Award
Spring 5-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
Kent Wascom
Committee Member
John McManus
Committee Member
Benjamin Kingsley
Abstract
The marginalized, the rejected, the ignored, the obscure and the flawed are always the subjects of violence. This is a collection of short stories portraying different experiences of violence, communal, racial, gendered, and economic. Stories foreground the intersectional identity of Muslim women, highlighting islamophobia; and questions the existing political and social order of the world.
Versions of these stories appeared in the following publications: ‘When They Came for Us’ in The Kenyon Review, ‘Junaid’ in The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Tales from many Muslim Worlds (as ‘Main Hoon Juanid’), ‘Good Girls’ in The Chakkar.
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DOI
10.25777/6mez-sy02
Recommended Citation
Ahmed, Samia.
"When They Came for Us"
(2021). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/6mez-sy02
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/145