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Jesus, Joseph and Job - Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women's Fiction (Hardcover)
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Jesus, Joseph and Job - Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women's Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Literaturen Im Kontext. Arabisch - Persisch - Turkisch, 12
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Joseph, Jesus and Job are all immediately recognizable religious
figures in both Christianity and Islam who have been incorporated
into a range of artistic and literary projects both inside and
outside the Arab world. This book examines how three Lebanese women
authors borrow and use these religious figures within their works
of creative fiction: Huda Barakat re-casts the Qur'anic Yusuf in
1980s Lebanon during the Civil War and rewrites his relationship
with Zulaykha in Hajar al-dahik, Jesus appears in the guise of a
Lebanese peasant called Hamad in Najwa Barakat's novel told through
four 'tales', Hayat wa alam Hamad ibn Silana, and Andree Chedid
reclaims an individual voice, story and life for her work's title
character in La femme de Job. The book argues that through the use
of religious figures in secular works, authors draw on the
imaginative power that the sacred texts hold in the public
imagination in order to strengthen and solidify textual messages.
This study proposes that the social, political and literary
contributions of these works are interlinked and that their
messages emerge through their innovations and artistry as creative
works. Some of the issues engaged in these novels that are
discussed in the book include: equality between the sexes,
relationships between men and women, challenging fixed and rigid
gender identities, questioning confessional and religious
loyalties, and working against violence and war. Joseph, Jesus and
Job: Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women's
Fiction uses the dual critical frameworks of intertextuality and
post colonial feminist theory in order to develop a reading method
through which to understand these texts and together with and in
relation to a series of contexts. The question of how to define and
categorize literary works and the usefulness of this is explored
through a discussion of each works' multiple contexts - are these
Arabic, French, and/or francophone novels? Should they be
understood as Arab, Lebanese, and/or Third World texts? As women's
literature? All of the works treated in this study are placed in
dialogue with a number of other literary works both within Lebanon
and beyond it. The book therefore contributes to discussions and
debates both within and outside the field of Near Eastern, and
specifically Arab, literary studies.
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