The great expansion of post-occupation Iraqi fiction, with its overall depar-ture from social realism and its exploration of new genres, has brought along a new con-ceptualization of the Author. This paper aims to study how a peculiar figure of authoriality is both invoked and projected through narrative voices in Sinan Antoon’s Fihris (2016). A complex and multi-layered text, Antoon’s novel is narrated by human and non-human voices. Yet, despite the scattered and fragmented surface of narration, a hierarchical, almost concentric organizational principle is provided by the relations between the main narrators in a context of metalepsis. The analysis will focus on the strategies of authentication employed by narrators of different diegetic levels in the novel, from the short stories embedded, to the further level of authority provided by the autobiographi-cal elements in the narrative frame.
Raccontarsi con le macerie: voce e autorialità in Fihris di Sinan Antoon / F. Pozzoli. - In: ANNALI DI CA' FOSCARI. SERIE ORIENTALE. - ISSN 1125-3789. - 56:(2020 Jun 30), pp. 105-128. [10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2020/56/004]
Raccontarsi con le macerie: voce e autorialità in Fihris di Sinan Antoon
F. Pozzoli
2020
Abstract
The great expansion of post-occupation Iraqi fiction, with its overall depar-ture from social realism and its exploration of new genres, has brought along a new con-ceptualization of the Author. This paper aims to study how a peculiar figure of authoriality is both invoked and projected through narrative voices in Sinan Antoon’s Fihris (2016). A complex and multi-layered text, Antoon’s novel is narrated by human and non-human voices. Yet, despite the scattered and fragmented surface of narration, a hierarchical, almost concentric organizational principle is provided by the relations between the main narrators in a context of metalepsis. The analysis will focus on the strategies of authentication employed by narrators of different diegetic levels in the novel, from the short stories embedded, to the further level of authority provided by the autobiographi-cal elements in the narrative frame.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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