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Faith-centered consciousness is foundational to global modernist literary expression, as demonstrated by how Saudi and African American women writers utilize their respective cultural and religious traditions to construct identity and resist patriarchal control. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

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To examine how Saudi and African American women writers construct modernist literary expression through faith, patriarchal resistance, and identity formation.

September 5, 2026British Journal of Middle Eastern StudiesOpen Access

Saudi Women’s Literary Identity and African American Narratives: A PRISMA-ScR Systematic Scoping Review of Modernism, Faith, and Parallel Journeys

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SASaleh AljumahQassim University

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Systematic scoping review reveals parallel intersections of faith, modernism, and resistance in Saudi and African American women's narratives, challenging secular biases in modernist scholarship.

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To examine how Saudi and African American women writers construct modernist literary expression through faith, patriarchal resistance, and identity formation.
Applied PRISMA-ScR scoping review methodology to evaluate 22 peer-reviewed sources published between 1990 and 2024.
Conducted comparative literary close readings of novels by Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Paule Marshall, and Badriah Al-Bishr.
Identified four common thematic axes across both traditions: spiritual seeking and spatial autonomy, silence as constraint and chosen strategy, bodily resistance to patriarchal control, and faith-centred modernist consciousness.
Showed that composing in Arabic acts as cultural sovereignty for Saudi women to voice feminist critique within sacred heritage, paralleling African American women's vernacular traditions and disproving the assumption that modernism is inherently secular.

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Saleh Aljumah (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd4606b95aff0620ec14a https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2026.2717164

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Systematic scoping review reveals parallel intersections of faith, modernism, and resistance in Saudi and African American women's narratives, challenging secular biases in modernist scholarship.

Saudi Women’s Literary Identity and African American Narratives: A PRISMA-ScR Systematic Scoping Review of Modernism, Faith, and Parallel Journeys

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Saudi Women’s Literary Identity and African American Narratives: A PRISMA-ScR Systematic Scoping Review of Modernism, Faith, and Parallel Journeys

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