The Last Girl: A Journey from Sufferer to Savior

Abstract

Nadia Murad is a bold Yazidi girl, who fought against serious sexual and emotional harassment from ISIS enslavement in Iraq. Her touching creation “The last girl” is a story of captivity and her battle against the Islamic state. Her mother and six brothers were killed. The book is the voice of orphan, rape victim, slave and refugee. The book is written by Nadia Murad and Jenna Krajeski, a journalist based in New York. The present article is an effort to analysis the narrative technique, issue of race and difference, refugee and feminism dealt in the book “The last girl”. The work is autobiographical. Most of such books deal with the dream than reality, but here we can feel the touching facts. The timespan of the work is from 2014 to 2017.