Sex as a Metaphor in Philip Roth's Kepesh Trilogy | ||||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||||
| Article 25, Volume 15, Issue 2, July 2023, Page 1014-1049 PDF (529.35 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2023.228509.1945 | ||||
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رشاد مختار رشاد حامد 
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| Abstract Roth's writing excellency is uniquely and evident in the way he metaphorically and self-consciously establishes that connection between himself as a writer and his fictional voice. This paper aims at investigating Philip Roth's use of sexuality as a metaphor in his early fiction. Noticeably, sexuality for Philip Roth is a theme that exposes hidden narratives that work to conceal the conceits of Roth's protagonists. Roth's hidden narratives have many aspects: one of which is to reveal the real meanings of recent European experiences. Another thing is to convey the Jewish experience of fear and racial prejudice in Americaز Roth intends to present the inner struggles of his main Jewish characters through a metaphorical fictional presentation of their sexual perversion and debauchery that commonly prove to be acts of vindication against their social milieu. In the grotesque image of a male body entrapping himself in a female breast lurks the hidden desire to attack society by means of ineptness and perversion. In the wandering sexual adventures of an academic professor lies the secret meaning of the lost identity of a diasporic Jew whose sole means of conquering the world is sexual debauchery. The image of a waning sexual prowess is another metaphorical representation of the idea of the Jewish protagonist who is unwilling to admit his failings so he chooses to let others die for the sake of pertaining his false legacy of his Jewish-male-ethnic-intellectual superiority. Keywords: metaphor, sexuality, metamorphosis, Jewish identity, displacement, misogyny, self-vindication, dismemberment, fetishism, sexual revolution. | ||||
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| metaphor; sexuality; Jewish identity; self- vindication | ||||
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