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
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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
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
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