Transnationalizing Ecocritical Studies in Arab Diasporic Fiction: A Case Study of Fadia Faqir’s My Name Is Salma

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2022-0010

E. Mukattash

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Abstract Since Cheryll Glotfelty’s 1996 call to transnationalize ecocriticism, several strands of ecocriticism have managed, with varying degrees of success, to extend the study of nature beyond the white American context. Nevertheless, ecocritical studies to deal with multi-ethnic and diasporic subjects such as Arabic literature written in diaspora are still quite sparse. The present study aims to examine the degree to which the transnational turn in ecocritical theory has been implemented in Arabic literature in diaspora, by conducting an ecocritical analysis of My Name Is Salma (2007), a diasporic novel written by the Arab-British writer Fadia Faqir. The protagonist’s interactions with various natural settings in Lebanon, Cyprus and England offer a deeper insight into the role nature plays in shaping the identity of the Arab immigrant who leaves his or her native land to live in a foreign one. In this sense, not only would a more theoretically-based attention to ecocritical studies in Arab diasporic literature contribute to the current discussions of ecocriticism, but it would also offer further perspectives on the most commonly raised questions in Arabic diasporic literature.

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阿拉伯流散小说中的跨国生态批评研究——以法迪亚·法基尔的《我叫萨尔玛》为例

自从cheryl Glotfelty在1996年呼吁将生态批评跨国化以来，一些生态批评流派已经成功地将自然研究扩展到美国白人背景之外，并取得了不同程度的成功。然而，处理多民族和散居主题的生态批评研究，如散居的阿拉伯文学，仍然相当稀少。本研究旨在通过对阿拉伯裔英国作家法迪亚·法基尔(Fadia Faqir)创作的散居小说《我叫萨尔玛》(2007)进行生态批评分析，考察生态批评理论的跨国转向在散居阿拉伯文学中的实施程度。主人公在黎巴嫩、塞浦路斯和英国与各种自然环境的互动，让我们更深入地了解了自然在塑造阿拉伯移民的身份方面所起的作用，这些移民离开了自己的祖国，生活在异国他乡。从这个意义上说，对阿拉伯流散文学中生态批评研究的理论基础关注不仅有助于当前对生态批评的讨论，而且还将为阿拉伯流散文学中最常见的问题提供进一步的视角。

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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