순으 알라 이브라힘 소설의 중산층 인물 연구－소설 '다트'를 중심으로－

Abstract

The paper aims at analyzing the middle class characters represented in Şun`'Allāh 'Ibrāhīm's novels, particularly in Dhāt. Şun` 'Allāh 'Ibrāhīm is one of the famous writers who belong to so called 'Sixties Generation' in literary arena in twentieth century Egypt. As a novelist he has searched for hidden factors and causes of social change in his country. The paper consists of four chapters: introduction, the definition of social classes in Egypt, middle class characters in the novel and conclusion. The introduction examines Şun` 'Allāh 'Ibrāhīm's life, important novel works and the outline of his fictional world. The second chapter surveys the yardsticks of classification of social classes;higher, middle and lower ones. In doing so the paper followed some social science specialists when they consider the economic elements as most significant criteria. The third chapter, main body of the paper, analyzes characters such as 'Amīnūfīs Faltas Qultah, `Abd al-Majīd, Şafīyah `Abbās and Dhāt. As the main character par excellence of the novel, Dhāt proves to be a typical middle class * 이 논문은 2011년도 한국외국어대학교 교내학술연구비에 의하여 연구되었음. ** 한국외국어대학교 아랍어과 부교수, adabara@hanmail.net 196 | 한국중동학회논총||제32권 제3호 [2012. 2]woman who lived in the Egyptian society in the periods of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak which went through drastic transformation and changes. The paper concludes that Dhāt is a common housewife and working woman and that she has a love for amassment of fortune and strong desire for climbing up the social class ladder. The paper also points out that Dhāt's life, as well as that of the whole middle class Egyptians, has been influenced enormously by the regimes' policy such as Nasserian socialism, Sadat's open door policy.