Similarly, with her writing oeuvre, Shatwan revisits Libyan history from the 19th and 20th centuries through a female lens. Shatwan is part of a growing number of Libyan women writers who are giving more room to a gendered point of view in literature. By building complex female characters, a growing number of Libyan writers are quietly introducing their ideas of gender equality. Italian writers on colonialism in LibyaItalian female writers have joined the historical reckoning, examining their country’s colonisation of Libya. Here, mythology and the female gaze are once again the lenses through which Italian writers have examined the past.

Source: Libya Today September 01, 2022 07:46 UTC