The Serpent Queen: A Case Study in “Travel” and Appropriation

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0187

M. Jarrar

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Abstract

Abstract:The article studies the adaptation of the popular tale of “Ḥāsib Karīm al-Dīn and the Queen of Serpents” from The Thousand and One Nights as a hypotext in the work of the contemporary Egyptian novelist and poet Badr al-Dīb (1926–2005). In folklore and religion, the serpent as a complex mythical symbol is perceived as a primordial being and is linked with wisdom and cosmic power. The snake-woman is the embodiment of the world-generating, life-giving principle and lunar wisdom. Whenever the serpent appears in folktales, epics, and religion, one can expect a spectacle of ongoing metamorphosis.Al-Dīb’s endeavor reveals the unrestrained options of the imagination of a contemporary writer whose “renarrating” amounts to a diegetic transposition of the cycle. Al-Dīb remains faithful to the text and offers a novel reading opting for an experience of constant impermanence. The crossing of spaces and the shifting of physical and imagined borders form a central dynamic in the structure of the tale.

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蛇女王:“旅行”与挪用的个案研究

摘要：本文研究了《红楼梦》的改编Ḥ《一千零一夜》中的“āsib Karīm al-Dīn和蛇形女王”，作为当代埃及小说家和诗人Badr al-Dāb（1926–2005）作品中的一种下文本。在民间传说和宗教中，蛇作为一个复杂的神话象征，被视为一个原始的存在，与智慧和宇宙力量联系在一起。蛇女是世界生成、赋予生命的原则和月亮智慧的化身。每当蛇出现在民间故事、史诗和宗教中时，人们都可以期待一场持续变形的奇观。Al-Dīb的努力揭示了一位当代作家的想象力的无限制选择，他的“重新命名”相当于对周期的一种diegetic换位。Al-Dīb仍然忠实于文本，并提供了一种选择持续无常体验的小说阅读。空间的交叉以及物理和想象边界的转换构成了故事结构的核心动力。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.