Power, Narrative, and Magical Realism in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ

Contenu

Titre

Power, Narrative, and Magical Realism in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ

Créateur

Aljomaa, Mervat Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2023

Dans

Journal of Arabic Literature Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Abstract

This article examines the narrative and literary techniques employed in Hudā Ḥamad’s
Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ
to draw on Omani women’s experiences of writing and speaking as sources of empowerment and narrative identity. Marking a shift from the dominant realistic and historical fiction often associated with male writers, Ḥamad experiments with magical realism, the carnivalesque, intertextuality, and metafiction to reconfigure the novelistic genre beyond the national prescriptions of literary production. Through the voice of the narrator, alongside the voices of other ordinary women, the novel underscores the significance of women’s symbolic practices within the societal and cultural boundaries of Oman. In an allegory of writing—a major thread running throughout the novel—the narrator/writer seeks to combine the composite, multiple, and fictional fragments of various women’s stories into a single readable text that preserves oral and cultural memory. Thus, on the one hand, this article explores the writer’s experimentation with narrative and storytelling within the context of the Omani literary tradition. On the other hand, it examines modes of women’s empowerment that work through articulative and enunciative practices in the face of linguistic frustration.

Langue

eng

volume

54

numéro

1-2

pages

217-235

Titre abrégé

J. Arab. Lit.

doi

10.1163/1570064x-12341478

issn

0085-2376, 1570-064X

uri

https://brill.com/view/journals/jal/54/1-2/article-p217_8.xml

Aljomaa, Mervat, “Power, Narrative, and Magical Realism in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ”, 2023, bibliographie, consulté le 7 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23455