A STUDY OF EMOTIONAL VICTIMIZATION AND TRANSMUTATION TO CONVALESCENCE IN LIANA BADR’S THE EYE OF THE MIRROR

Abstract

This research article explores victimization of women and their undaunted courage during the Lebanese Civil War (1975 – 1976) in Liana Badr’s novel, The Eye of the Mirror. The most impaired section of society during and after the war is women folk. The extent of victimization that the novel portrays ranges from physical and emotional infliction to psychological trauma and then to social estrangement. The current article undertakes novel, The Eye of the Mirror as a literary feed forwarding response of a post-colonial Arab feminist writer who opposes twice colonization of her women and unchains them from the clutches of sisterhood and entrusts her dying culture in the hands of female characters. Plundered by the ravages of war and a discriminatory world under foreign aggression, the female characters at last break their silence and stand with panache while they protect their political position, transitioning from the world of victimizations to the state of normalcy of emotions.