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My contention is that these fragmented uses of variations on the trope of national allegory are employed by these Arab women writers of Muslim cultures in order to rewrite the body (a female body, but one in relation to the male). This dissertation employs post-colonial theory and its issues (in particular the work of Fredric Jameson, Homi K. Bhabha, Francoise Lionnet, Reda Bensmaia, and Anne Donadey) to analyze the authors' works in question. The problems of women are symptomatic of those of the nation. Being subject to patriarchy, the two cannot be divided. 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