Elsadig Hussein Fadlalla Ali

College of Science and Arts (Tanumah) – King Khalid University (KSA)

In this paper, the researcher discusses Literary feminism in Sudan. The historical method is used to investigate the features and characteristics of literary feminism. The topic of feminism in general and feminist literary theory in particular with its features and characteristics are discussed. The paper ends with the important feature and characteristics of modern literary feminism in Sudan one of which is that writing about very personal relations is clear in this period, on which the female writer bases her creativity to express her own experience, her knowledge of being different and free, and her fighting against the various injustice machines that try to control her body and mind.

Feminism, Sudanese feminism, literary feminism, literary movements

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Volume 05 Issue 11 November 2022

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