Soueif’s Aisha: A Portrait of Memory, Time, and Liberation

This paper explores The Returning, which is a short story written by Ahdaf Soueif. Returning selected from the author’s first collection of stories entitled Aisha was in 1983. It Soueif’s fictional work. focuses on way author depicts her female protagonist named, Aisha, as nostalgic character. revisits past and bumps into lost memories with husband. Soueif also portrays Aisha’s transformation liberated liberating transcends time clutches to claim fresh start. attempts reveal how protagonist’s memory journey throughout past, returning present. utilization time-shift technique depict set-forth liberation that oblivion chains past. reveals an alternative vision characters detached clichéd portraits. unwinds creative images flexible co-existing entities; present, future.