Essays about: "Desert Flower"

Found 1 essay containing the words Desert Flower.

  1. 1. To Teach or Not to Teach? : An analysis of depiction of trauma in Waris Dirie’s and Cathleen Miller’s ”Desert Flower” and trauma narratives as sensitive issues in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Moa Jonsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Trauma; FGM; circumcision; literature; Desert Flower; autobiography; pedagogy; upper secondary school; EFL classroom;

    Abstract : This essay examines Dirie’s and Miller’s Desert Flower and its depiction of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the effect that this violation has had on the narrator. The analysis has been conducted through the critical lens of trauma studies with emphasis on how bearing witness of traumatic events can serve as healing and empowerment in the struggle to end FGM. READ MORE