Not Without My Daughter: An Orientalist Analysis

Abstract

This paper analyses the relationship between the East and the West in Betty Mahmoody’s memoir Not Without My Daughter (1987) written along with William Hoffer. The novel is written with as well as caters to the Oriental Perspective. This is a result of the stark difference between the culture, ethnicity, beliefs, ideologies, practices which further the stereotypes. The paper examines the representations and binaries that emerge while portraying the East in Betty Mahmoody’s memoir