Titre : |
Planetarian Discourse and the Pendulum of Identity in Contemporary Fiction. Al-Sanea’s Girls of Riyadh and Mukherjee’s Miss New India |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Hiba Bouaita, Auteur |
Editeur : |
université de Tlemcen |
Année de publication : |
2021/2022 |
Importance : |
277p. |
Format : |
21x27 cm. |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Planetarity, imagination, oriental woman, transculturalism, Identity |
Résumé : |
The present work intends to read the contemporary Arab and Indian literary works in an era of
global circulations. The literary scripts of Rajaa Al-Sanea’s Girls of Riyadh and Mukherjee’s
Miss New India appear to attest for a globalized reality articulated through the formal and
thematic expressions of the texts. Under the fact of transnational motions fostering a
crosscultural encounter between the Orient and the Occident, the cultural identity of the main
characters is questioned, leading to examine their self-construction from a Planetarian
perspective. The concept is theoretically constructed from Gayatri Spivak’s notion of
Planetarity, which primarily aims at altering the ‘classical’ literary reading standards, and opts
for constructing novel perspectives that converge with the global realities. The present work
discusses that the images of the self and the other foster the cultural imagination of the literary
characters, where the cognitive reception of direct and indirect images of the self and the
other lead to the construction of a transcultural identity. Accordingly, the discussions
contribute into a reading that promotes for the use of cognitivism as a literary and cultural
approach to understand identity construction in the era of globalization. Moreover, it adds to
the transcultural readings through announcing that the construction of a transcultural identity
in the global era is assisted by cultural imagination. |
Planetarian Discourse and the Pendulum of Identity in Contemporary Fiction. Al-Sanea’s Girls of Riyadh and Mukherjee’s Miss New India [texte imprimé] / Hiba Bouaita, Auteur . - université de Tlemcen, 2021/2022 . - 277p. ; 21x27 cm. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
Mots-clés : |
Planetarity, imagination, oriental woman, transculturalism, Identity |
Résumé : |
The present work intends to read the contemporary Arab and Indian literary works in an era of
global circulations. The literary scripts of Rajaa Al-Sanea’s Girls of Riyadh and Mukherjee’s
Miss New India appear to attest for a globalized reality articulated through the formal and
thematic expressions of the texts. Under the fact of transnational motions fostering a
crosscultural encounter between the Orient and the Occident, the cultural identity of the main
characters is questioned, leading to examine their self-construction from a Planetarian
perspective. The concept is theoretically constructed from Gayatri Spivak’s notion of
Planetarity, which primarily aims at altering the ‘classical’ literary reading standards, and opts
for constructing novel perspectives that converge with the global realities. The present work
discusses that the images of the self and the other foster the cultural imagination of the literary
characters, where the cognitive reception of direct and indirect images of the self and the
other lead to the construction of a transcultural identity. Accordingly, the discussions
contribute into a reading that promotes for the use of cognitivism as a literary and cultural
approach to understand identity construction in the era of globalization. Moreover, it adds to
the transcultural readings through announcing that the construction of a transcultural identity
in the global era is assisted by cultural imagination. |
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