My Name Is Salma: The Investigation of Factor-based Particularities Affecting a Violent Relationship and its Termination through the Scope of Feminist Literary Theory

This article explores a domestic violence survivor's choice to take counteraction against her perpetrator and put an end to their destructive relationship. Research on domestic violence, including literary studies, fails to take into consideration women who decide to break free from violent relationships, and who manage successfully to do so at an early stage in the relationship, after only minimal abusive incidents (Okun 1986; Mann 2000). Salma is the protagonist of Fadia Faqir's My Name Is Salma. The hardships and obstacles Salma encounters to terminate her oppressive consuming is examined through a feminist perspective, a task that has not been addressed in the literature on domestic violence.