영국령 트란스요르단 정신병원에 갇힌 무슬림 여성들: 아랍 여성 작가 파디아 파키르의 『소금기둥』
Muslim Women in a Mental Hospital of Transjordan under the British Mandate in Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir
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This paper introduces a British-Jordanian writer Fadia Faqir unknown to Korean academia and explores her second novel, Pillars of Salt from a transnational and transcultural feminist perspective. Set in Transjordan during and after the British Mandate, it unfolds the disturbing stories of two Muslim women who end up sharing a room in a mental hospital managed by an English doctor - Maha, a Bedouin peasant from the Jordan Valley and Um Saad, a city housewife from Amman. The novel is characterized by three different narrators, an intricate structure of traditional Arabic storytelling, English style, Islamic sensibility, and Western feminist themes. The title of the novel, Pillars of Salt, refers to Lot's wife. In the Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot’s wife turned back to watch Sodom burn and was transformed into a pillar of salt for disobeying God's word. The paper defines the Muslim women as pillars of salt synonymous with rebellious, disobedient female subjects in terms of female madness and resistance. In doing so, it deals with religious, political, cultural, and gender conflicts in Islamic society in which women are religiously considered as being inferior to men and culturally confined in a well-closed room complexly constructed with patriarchal traditions, Islamic norms, and colonial orders.
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This paper introduces a British-Jordanian writer Fadia Faqir unknown to Korean academia and explores her second novel, Pillars of Salt from a transnational and transcultural feminist perspective. Set in Transjordan during and after the British Mandate, it unfolds the disturbing stories of two Muslim women who end up sharing a room in a mental hospital managed by an English doctor - Maha, a Bedouin peasant from the Jordan Valley and Um Saad, a city housewife from Amman. The novel is characterized by three different narrators, an intricate structure of traditional Arabic storytelling, English style, Islamic sensibility, and Western feminist themes. The title of the novel, Pillars of Salt, refers to Lot's wife. In the Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot’s wife turned back to watch Sodom burn and was transformed into a pillar of salt for disobeying God's word. The paper defines the Muslim women as pillars of salt synonymous with rebellious, disobedient female subjects in terms of female madness and resistance. In doing so, it deals with religious, political, cultural, and gender conflicts in Islamic society in which women are religiously considered as being inferior to men and culturally confined in a well-closed room complexly constructed with patriarchal traditions, Islamic norms, and colonial orders.
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