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| DOI | 10.2979/reseafrilite.46.3.46 |
| Spiritual Symbolism in the Sahara: Ibrahim Al-Koni's Nazif al-Hajar | |
| Weisberg, Meg Furniss | |
| 通讯作者 | Weisberg, MF (corresponding author), Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT 06459 USA. |
| 来源期刊 | RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES
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| ISSN | 0034-5210 |
| EISSN | 1527-2044 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 卷号 | 46期号:3页码:46-67 |
| 英文摘要 | In his 1990 novel, Nazif al-Hajar [The Bleeding of the Stone], Tuareg writer Ibrahim al-Koni draws on Tuareg practices and Sufi mysticism to depict the Sahara desert as inclusive, in proportion, balanced. The desert in this novel is both painstakingly specific and literal and also entirely mythological (usturiya), which serves as a device to call into question the legitimacy or even reality of neocolonial power structures. By putting this novel in conversation with Western theories of categorization (following Agamben's work on the human-animal distinction) and looking at intertextual resonances with the Buddhist Jataka tale The Banyan Deer, explicit and implicit references to Islamic scriptures, and the preponderance of Sufi and Tuareg imagery and symbolism, I argue that this novel questions the primacy or validity of Western novelistic and philosophical structures and offers an alternative, spiritually based reading of the desert as both metaphor and ecosystem, based on balance and interconnection. |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | AHCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000359095200003 |
| WOS类目 | Literature, African, Australian, Canadian |
| WOS研究方向 | Literature |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361438 |
| 作者单位 | Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT 06459 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Weisberg, Meg Furniss. Spiritual Symbolism in the Sahara: Ibrahim Al-Koni's Nazif al-Hajar[J],2015,46(3):46-67. |
| APA | Weisberg, Meg Furniss.(2015).Spiritual Symbolism in the Sahara: Ibrahim Al-Koni's Nazif al-Hajar.RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES,46(3),46-67. |
| MLA | Weisberg, Meg Furniss."Spiritual Symbolism in the Sahara: Ibrahim Al-Koni's Nazif al-Hajar".RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES 46.3(2015):46-67. |
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