"On the Bridge between Life and Death" … A Biography of Aisha Abdurrahman (The Beach Girl),Circles of Silence, and the Clamor of Questions

Abstract

The present study represents a critical and analytical approach to a feminist biography of a well-known writer in our modern Arab culture, Aisha Abdurrahman (The Beach Girl). The title of this biography is "On the Bridge between Life and Death," which she wrote soon after the death of her inspiring professor and husband, the Sheikh and the renovated scholar (Amin Al-Khuli). The study attempts to look at this biography as one of the contents of the Arabic feminist narrative reflected (shaped) by practicing autobiographical writing, which motivated the researcher to formulate fundamental interpretations of the contents of this speech via addressing the psychological projections of the internal and external conflict created by the social and intellectual relations of The Beach Girl, as well as through the awareness paths produced by this biography. Additionally, the researcher adopts the Dialectical Approach of silence and the clamor of questions that the researcher explors by a profound reading of the author’s character that accompanies her throughout her journey, on the bridge between life and death. Keywords: Biography, Literary criticism, Feminist discourse, Narration, Conflict.