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Ecocriticism and Sufi Mysticism in The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories: an Eco-Mythological Approach

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Studies in World Literature

Abstract

This article attempts to explore how the Mythological and Ecocritical approaches can coalesce to offer an insight into the north Afro-Arab Sudanese village world represented in Tayeb Salih's collection The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories. Considering that it is mostly understudied as compared to other literary works by Salih, previous critiques on The Wedding of Zein focused separately on either the Sufi interpretation of the text and the distorted figure of Zein, the postcolonial gothic, or the preservation of the African identity in a changing world. This article, however, investigates two main notions: first taking the regular religious Sufi analysis into another level of combining Sufi mysticism and shared universal mythological archetypes on the one hand, and Sufi mysticism and Ecocriticism on the other hand. Second, applying the perceptions of Ecocriticism that has seldom been applied to Sudanese literature in general and Salih's in particular. Concepts of the nurturing of nature, maldevelopment, and social unity in face of modernity are inspected though the lens of the coined Eco-Mythological approach.           

DOI

10.21608/tjhss.2022.279173

Keywords

Tayeb Salih, ecocriticism, Sufism, Mythology, Centers of Consciousness

Authors

First Name

Samar

Last Name

Maatouq

MiddleName

Muhamad Esmail

Affiliation

Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.

Email

samar.muhamad@mu.edu.eg

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0000-0003-1468-6018

Volume

3

Article Issue

4

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37311

Issue Date

2022-10-01

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2022-11-01

Publish Date

2022-10-30

Page Start

225

Page End

240

Print ISSN

2636-4239

Online ISSN

2636-4247

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https://tjhss.journals.ekb.eg/article_279173.html

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279,173

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1,087

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Publication Title

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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https://tjhss.journals.ekb.eg/

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Ecocriticism and Sufi Mysticism in The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories: an Eco-Mythological Approach

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22 Jan 2023