La géographie du nouveau roman saoudien selon Yūsuf al‑Muḥaymīd
The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between al‑dākhil, the term Saudis use to define their country, and al‑khārij, the “outside”, in the novels of the Saudi writer Yūsuf al‑Muḥaymīd. In my attempt I will espouse Franco Moretti’s theory on “Literary geography” or “Geocriticism” devel...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Arabian Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/arabianhumanities/2740 |
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| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between al‑dākhil, the term Saudis use to define their country, and al‑khārij, the “outside”, in the novels of the Saudi writer Yūsuf al‑Muḥaymīd. In my attempt I will espouse Franco Moretti’s theory on “Literary geography” or “Geocriticism” developed in his essay La letteratura vista da lontano published in 2005. If we locate the characters and events described in a novel on an imaginary geographical atlas we obtain, according to Moretti, a series of “literary maps”, which will eventually reveal “the direct relationship between social conflict and aesthetic form”. By mapping Yūsuf al‑Muḥaymīd’s novels, I will show that the author draws the internal dimension of the country only in its relation to the “outside”, inspiring an in‑depth critical investigation in apparently assumed concepts such as “the limits of a State”, the “territoriality”, the “citizenship”, and the “cultural identity”. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-6122 |