Generational differences in three Egyptian women writers: Finding a common ground
Generational differences in three Egyptian women writers: Finding a common ground
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三位埃及女作家的代际差异：寻找共同点
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2011
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Maggie Awadalla
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作者：
Maggie Awadalla
后殖民时代的埃及见证了重大的文化和政治发展，对于试图在公共和私人领域内谈判物理和意识形态空间的作家来说，这无疑是一个具有挑战性的时代。民族自我与民族他者的意识形态同时被历代当代女作家所倡导和质疑。在一个以西方为导向的现代自我叙事与伊斯兰原教旨主义人生观之间的冲突经常直接对立的时代，并习惯于以简化的方式来消除文化差异，现代埃及文学作家面临着更大的挑战。三位女作家，Zayyat，Ahdaf Soueif和Rehab Bassam，以不同的方式努力恢复个人与公众之间的微妙平衡，代表了现代性的三种重要模式。Zayyat侧重于整体与自我以及民族与个人的关系，Soueif侧重于混合体，自我和他者。苏伊夫的作品试图占据阿拉伯和西方文化的共同点。另一方面，Rehab Bassam最初在博客上开始了她的文学生涯。这种新的媒介正在重塑我们对公共和私人动态的理解，并且不可避免地会影响当代埃及写作中现代性模式的形成。这三位作家试图在现代世俗主义、全球化和本土文学形式之间找到一个文化互动的共同点，并将其发展成为一个有意义的共同叙事：现在和未来。
Postcolonial Egypt has witnessed significant cultural and political developments, and undoubtedly it has been a challenging era for writers attempting to negotiate a physical and ideological space within the public and private spheres. Ideologies of national self and national others have simultaneously been advocated and questioned by successive generations of contemporary women writers. In an era in which the conflict between a modern western-orientated narrative of the self is often pitted in direct opposition to an Islamic fundamentalist outlook on life, and used to polarize cultural differences in reductive ways, the modern Egyptian literary writer has an even greater challenge ahead of them. Three women writers, Latifa Zayyat, Ahdaf Soueif and Rehab Bassam, who have in different ways striven to restore the delicate balance between the personal and the public, represent three important modes of modernity. Where Zayyat focuses on the relationship of the whole to the self and the nation to the individual, Soueif focuses on the hybrid, the self and the other. Soueif’s work seeks to occupy a ground common to Arab and western culture alike. Rehab Bassam, on the other hand, initially began her literary career on weblogs. This new medium is reshaping our understanding of the dynamics of public and private, and is one that inevitably will influence how current modes of modernity are being shaped in contemporary Egyptian writing. The three writers attempt to find a common ground of cultural interaction between modern secularism, globalization and indigenous literary forms that can be developed into a meaningful communal narrative: present and future.