Constructing a counter-memory of the stereotypical Arab female in Arabic fantasy literature

构建阿拉伯奇幻文学中典型阿拉伯女性的反记忆

• 批准号: 2427669
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2427669
• 关键词: Constructing; counter; memory; stereotypical; Arab

My project, comprising of a 60,000-word Young Adult fantasy composite novel, The Storyteller, and accompanying 20,000-word reflective commentary, is the first comprehensive study applying Islamic feminism and hybridity theories to Arabic fantasy literature. The Storyteller is about the journey of a young girl with a fragmented identity attempting to find where she belongs. I will implement an old model of female heroism inherited from traditional Arabic epic literature in the modern context of Islamic feminist and hybridity theories. Islamic feminism negotiates religious and feminist identities, problematising the normative Western feminist discourse on Arab women. It's rhetorical device, multiple critique, considers inconsistencies in identity as a response to external silencing (Cooke, Women Claim Islam, 2001). I will examine the shift in representation of female identity in Arabic fantasy literature in three distinct periods, epic, modern and contemporary YA fiction. My reading will be shaped by hybridity theories, identity politics and Islamic feminism. Using the composite novel form, The Storyteller will be a demonstrative and investigative exercise into how identity can be shown in isolation in short stories, whilst also presenting a cohesive character in a novel. I intend to depict how identity, including actions, culture and motivations, are shaped by external factors such as oppressive regimes, relationship dynamics and plot, and thus is not a 'singular, unified identity' (Cooke, Women Claim Islam, 2001).This project will address the gap in scholarship by retroactively applying Islamic feminist theory to Arabic fantasy epic literature to examine whether modern texts have inherited an old model of female heroism. Additionally, there is little research on how Cooke's rhetorical device, multiple critique, can be implemented, investigated and linked with postcolonial theories of hybridity. My second objective is to explore how fantastic elements is viewed within the purview of religious doctrines, and thus an attempt at negotiating religious and feminist ideologies, and how these mystical elements are essential to the investigation of female identity due to their political and social subversive power in representing the hybridity of the colonised subject.I will investigate narrative and structural devices in Jayussi's translation of The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan (1999) and Lyons Tales from 1,001 Nights (2010). The crux of my research will centre around these texts. I will trace the heritage of identified narrative and structural traditions linking to female heroism and the fantastical in modern texts, Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days (1995) and The Epic of the Riff-Raff (1994), whilst also exploring hybridity. Thereafter, I will examine the contemporary representation of female identity in YA fantasy fiction, Ahdieh's The Wrath and the Dawn (2015) and Ciccarelli's The Last Namsara (2017).The critical reading and creative praxis of this project will inform each other. I will address the erasure of female heroism in Arabic literature. I intend to identify the nuances in the identity of female characters and deconstruct the idea that they have a single, 'oriental', passive identity (Cooke, Women Claim Islam, 2001). The impact of this research will be widespread. The stereotype in western and non-western countries will be deconstructed, scholarship into the historical heritage of other cultures will be further investigated and implemented in practice.

我的项目，包括一个60，000字的年轻成人幻想复合小说，讲故事的人，并伴随着20，000字的反思评论，是第一个全面的研究应用伊斯兰女权主义和杂合理论阿拉伯幻想文学。故事讲述的是一个身份支离破碎的年轻女孩试图找到自己归属的旅程。我将在伊斯兰女权主义和混杂理论的现代语境中实施从传统阿拉伯史诗文学中继承的女性英雄主义的旧模式。伊斯兰女权主义协商宗教和女权主义身份，质疑西方女权主义对阿拉伯妇女的规范性话语。它的修辞手段，多重批评，认为身份的不一致是对外部沉默的回应（库克，妇女声称伊斯兰教，2001年）。我将在三个不同的时期，史诗，现代和当代YA小说，研究阿拉伯幻想文学中女性身份的代表性的转变。我的阅读将受到混杂理论、身份政治和伊斯兰女权主义的影响。使用复合小说的形式，讲故事的人将是一个示范性和调查性的练习，如何在短篇小说中孤立地展示身份，同时在小说中呈现一个有凝聚力的角色。我打算描绘身份，包括行动，文化和动机，是如何被外部因素，如压迫政权，关系动态和情节塑造的，因此不是一个'单一的，统一的身份'（库克，妇女声称伊斯兰教，（2001年）本项目将通过追溯性地将伊斯兰女权主义理论应用于阿拉伯幻想史诗文学来研究现代文本是否继承了女性英雄主义的旧模式。此外，很少有研究如何库克的修辞手段，多重批评，可以实施，调查和与后殖民理论的杂合。我的第二个目标是探索如何在宗教教义的范围内看待奇幻元素，从而尝试谈判宗教和女权主义意识形态，以及这些神秘的元素是如何对女性身份的研究至关重要的，因为它们在表现殖民主体的混杂性方面具有政治和社会颠覆性的力量。我将研究杰尤西翻译的《历险记》中的叙事和结构手段Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan（1999）和里昂故事1,001夜（2010）。我的研究重点将围绕这些文本。我将追溯与女性英雄主义和现代文本中的幻想有关的已确定的叙事和结构传统的遗产，Mahfouz的《一千零一夜》（1995）和《Riff-Raff史诗》（1994），同时也探索混合性。此后，我将研究在YA幻想小说，Ahdieh的愤怒和黎明（2015）和Ciccarelli的最后Namsara（2017）的女性身份的当代表现。这个项目的批判性阅读和创造性实践将相互通报。我将讨论阿拉伯文学中女性英雄主义的消失。我打算找出女性角色身份的细微差别，并解构她们有一个单一的、“东方的”、被动的身份的想法（库克，《妇女声称伊斯兰教》，2001年）。这项研究的影响将是广泛的。西方和非西方国家的刻板印象将被解构，对其他文化历史遗产的研究将进一步深入，并在实践中得到落实。