ARAB AND COPTIC IDENTITIES IN THE LITERARY OF IDWAR AL-KHARRAT

Litteraria Copernicana

Michał Moch¹ 

[1] Pracownia Języka i Kultury Arabskiej Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego;

关键词: idwar al-charrat;    koptowie;    egipt;    esej;    tożsamość;   

DOI  :  10.12775/LC.2014.004

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article focuses on the work of an Egyptian novelist, essayist and literary critic from Alexandria, Idwar al-Kharrat. This outstanding contemporary writer deeply involved with both Egyptian locality and Christianity, and widely known throughout the Arab world, was born in a place where the Coptic Patriarchate was historically established. Al-Kharrat in his formally modern works evokes the image of Egypt as multicultural, open country, deeply rooted in Mediterranean culture. Al-Kharrat’s novels, as well as his essays, show his concern regarding the mission of the modern writer; the author ponders upon his own complex, multilevel Arab-Egyptian-Coptic identity. The collection of essays entitled Muhajama al-Mustahel. Maqati min sira dhatiyya li-al-kitaba (1996, Facing the Impossible. Excerpts from the Autobiography of a Writer), and not yet translated into Polish or English, is a vital point of reference to the author of this paper.

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