Ahdaf Soueif's "Sandpiper": A Narrative Identity in a Liminal Space
Jassam, A., Jassam, H., Ibrahim, A. (2023). Ahdaf Soueif's "Sandpiper": A Narrative Identity in a Liminal Space. EKB Journal Management System, 24(9), 1-16. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2024.254436.1581
Aseel H. Jassam; Hadeel H. Jassam; Ayad T. Ibrahim. "Ahdaf Soueif's "Sandpiper": A Narrative Identity in a Liminal Space". EKB Journal Management System, 24, 9, 2023, 1-16. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2024.254436.1581
Jassam, A., Jassam, H., Ibrahim, A. (2023). 'Ahdaf Soueif's "Sandpiper": A Narrative Identity in a Liminal Space', EKB Journal Management System, 24(9), pp. 1-16. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2024.254436.1581
Jassam, A., Jassam, H., Ibrahim, A. Ahdaf Soueif's "Sandpiper": A Narrative Identity in a Liminal Space. EKB Journal Management System, 2023; 24(9): 1-16. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2024.254436.1581

Ahdaf Soueif's "Sandpiper": A Narrative Identity in a Liminal Space

مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب
Article 5, Volume 24, Issue 9, December 2023, Page 1-16  XML PDF (454.61 K)
Document Type: المقالة الأصلية
DOI: 10.21608/jssa.2024.254436.1581
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Authors
Aseel H. Jassam email orcid 1; Hadeel H. Jassam2; Ayad T. Ibrahim3
1قسم اللغة الإنجليزية / كلية التربية الأساسية/ الجامعة المستنصرية / العراق
2قسم اللغة الانجليزية/ كلية التربية للعلوم الانسانية/ جامعة ديالى/ العراق
3قسم التاريخ/ كلية التربية الاساسية/ جامعة ديالى/ العراق
Abstract
Self-fulfillment and homecoming are very complex psychological processes to achieve. To find oneself in a liminal space complicates these processes for he /she will experience ambivalent feelings. Such feelings are usually experienced by immigrants whose values and traditions clash with those of the host culture. Having set her feet in the West in pursuit of the dream of completing her higher studies in Britain, the Arab writer Ahdaf Soueif (1950- ) has gone through the feelings of uncertainty and unrest. In her semiautobiographical short story "Sandpiper" (1994), she reflects on her protagonist's conflicting cross-cultural lived experiences. The paper demonstrates how Soueif has made use of travel narrative/rhetoric as a medium wherein she can culturally mediate between her homeland (Egypt) and her new country (Britain) while exposing the feelings of anxiety and discomfort of her interracially married characters. The paper analyzes Soueif's "Sandpiper" in the light of the psychological concept of narrative identity by Dan P. McAdams and the postcolonial concepts of liminality by Homi Bhabha and contrapuntal thinking by Edward Said. In addition to defining these concepts, the paper examines how these theoretical frameworks truly apply to Soueif's narrative discourse and her female protagonist.
Keywords
Ahdaf Soueif; Cross-cultural; Liminal space; Narrative identity; Sandpiper
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