Document Type : Research Paper
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Arabic language and literature, Assistant professor, Arabic group, kosar university of Bojnord, Iran.
Abstract
“Fountain of Magic” is one of the stories from One Thousand and One Nights,. Despite the fact that this narrative is written in the language of a bondwoman and is intended to advocate for women, it is a testament to the fact that “being a woman” is the most horrific fate that can befall a man.Therefore, Egyptian feminist critics have accentuated the phrase “(female)narrator said; Women’s stories inspired by popular Arabic folktales” in the book and have attempted to reimagine it from a woman-centered perspective. “The Story of Fahd in the Women’s World” is the results of this endeavor. We have employed two approaches to interpret the narrative of these women: feminist analysis and Tzvetan Todorov’s structuralist approach. There are two rationales for this decision: Initially, the feminist analysis demonstrates the reasons why the aforementioned narrative is anti-feminist and requires a feminine revision. It also elucidates the manner in which the feminist critics have eliminated the anti-feminist elements from “Fountain of Magic” in their newly constructed narratives. Second, I will investigate whether this reading is beneficial in interpreting the anti-feminist elements of a text or understanding the female perspective in another text through structural analysis of the narrative. The application of Todorov’s poetic in its syntactic layer demonstrates that two narratives—the narrative of One Thousand and One Nights and the woman’s retelling—have a similarly structured that is consistent with Todorov’s model. However, this approach fails to uncover and assess the strata of the text that are crucial to feminist critics.
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