2024-03-29T03:47:47Z
https://sardiat.journals.ekb.eg/?_action=export&rf=summon&issue=13409
سرديات
2636-2945
2636-2945
2018
8
29
An Ecocritical Reading of Nadine Gordimer's Fiction Prof. Yehia Kamil
Ecocritics seek to trace environmental crises, ideas and representations, shedding light on the interaction between man and society on the one hand, and man and physical environment on the other. The aim of this paper is to underline Gordimer's treatment of humanity's interaction with the nonhuman, to show the relationships between her narratives and the environment, to explain how the environment is represented in her fiction, to highlight how the ecological intersects with the political, social and cultural, and to articulate how far characters are able to interact and establish healthy relationships with their society and environment.
Nadine Gordimer, who grew up in a dreary environment, presents a model of the interaction between culture and nature. Despite her being one of the privileged whites, she fights against the apartheid system, which drains nature, pollutes environment, and dehumanizes the blacks. Throughout her career, there has been an interaction between the private character and the public landscape, with the landscapes conveying "a changing picture of South African veld and the ancient roots of African culture." While Gordimer's characters, in her early novels, cannot develop a connection between their private lives and the surrounding environment, they develop , in her later ones ,an interaction with the public landscape. Gordimer presents post-apartheid South Africa as still vulnerable and plagued as before.
Gordimer's modern narratives articulate a delicate and sensitive interaction with the social and physical environments, with the ecological always intersecting with the political, cultural and social. Her fiction shows that ecological concerns are part of both the human and the non-human. Gordimer's latest narratives stress the importance of preserving and saving the environment, calling for a less threatened ecological order.
Ecocritical Reading
Physical environment
narratives
environment ecological intersects
2018
09
01
7
32
https://sardiat.journals.ekb.eg/article_89144_70f1fbab9f96af04b9ff8c7d363c027a.pdf
سرديات
2636-2945
2636-2945
2018
8
29
Suez Canal in the Egyptian novel : a postcolonial review dr.Sameh Saad Hassan
The main aim of this paper is to present a postcolonial review of the symbolic literary references of the Suez Canal in selected Egyptian novels and to historically trace how the symbolic significance of the Suez Canal changed many times throughout a number of significant historical phases – the Suez Company's concession,the Suez Crisis, the Arab-Israeli wars and post-war era. To achieve its purpose, this paper makes use of the concepts and ideas of Postcolonialism to discuss the relationship between history and literature andto examine how the Egyptian novel attempted, since the 1960s, to act as a counter discourse to the Western literary canon about the Suez Canal that served to reinforce colonialist ideology since its construction in the mid-nineteenth century. I conclude the paper by pointing out that the symbolic significance of the Suez Canal in the modern Egyptian novel has changed considerably throughout a number of significant historical phases from being a symbol of domination and exploitation of the East to become a symbol of anti-colonial and anti-subjugation resistance.
The Suez Canal
Symbolism
Egyptian novel
History
Postcolonialism
2018
09
01
33
76
https://sardiat.journals.ekb.eg/article_89145_791b3393fa05ed2287ae3cce57532b3c.pdf
سرديات
2636-2945
2636-2945
2018
8
29
The Narrative Techniques Used by Patrick Rothfuss in "The Name of the Wind" Amani Mansi Al Ghoraibi
In current times, high fantasy writers have adopted different methods of storytelling that are attractive to contemporary audiences. The purpose of this paper is to explore the narrative techniques that the American author, Patrick Rothfuss, uses in his successful fantasy novel, The Name of the Wind. The paper examines how Rothfuss captures readers’ curiosity by using techniques such as the Narrative Hook, which sets the scene for the rest of the story’s progression. Another feature Rothfuss uses is the Frame Story, or ‘Story within a story’, that shapes the story’s boundaries and explores the inner aspects within. The other two techniques Rothfuss uses is the flashforward and the flashback technique ,with both of them illustrating the narrator’s shift and changes in addressing the story itself. Patrick Rothfuss’s use of narrative techniques that engage the reader has created a well-rounded and successful high fantasy novel.
storytelling
narrative techniques
fantasy novel
Narrative Hook
2018
09
01
77
92
https://sardiat.journals.ekb.eg/article_89147_c7b2f84f4d3c6e46d0a1db98880c1b2e.pdf