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Ebtisam Ali Sadiq

Professor

Professor of English

العلوم اﻹنسانية واﻻجتماعية
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المنشورات
ورقة مؤتمر
2012

Space versus Place in Rushdie’s Satanic Verses

Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 2012

Contemporary Novel

Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses is a much contested piece of work. Its politics dichotomized responses into either condemnatory or supportive categories. In some forms of defense of its content, critics employed the principle of artistic necessity to explain the book’s transgression against Islamic ideology. This paper intends to neither defend nor condemn but rather to read the work through a postcolonial critical perspective and expose its limitations and inherent contradictions. The study suggests that Rushdie re-writes the history of Islam through a spatial perspective, a legitimate way of writing back to imperial forces and challenging essentialist world views. However, the author's utilization of spatial history discourse ironically exposes a hegemonic attitude and an imperialist stance on his part. His spatial sense of historic documentation simultaneously employs the metaphor of history as a theatre. Historical events as a theatre performance and the historian as an objective spectator are imperialist stances contested by postcolonial critics. The theatre metaphor is condemned as a colonialist practice that aims at subversion and control. Rushdie’s indulgence of the theatre metaphor negates his use of the traveler metaphor.  Such negation leads to questioning the efficiency and the legitimacy of his subversive attitude towards Islam.

نوع عمل المنشور
Literary Criticism
موقع المؤتمر
Paris, France
اسم المؤتمر
International Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences Research
المنظمة الممولة
Analytrics, Strasburg, France
مزيد من المنشورات
publications

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بواسطة Ebtisam Ali Sadiq
2016
تم النشر فى:
Partridge
publications

The thesis tackles Charlotte Bronte's deep interest in the East as reflected in her four major novels, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette. Starting…

بواسطة Ebtisam Ali Sadiq
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