- AutorIn
- Emiliano Minerba Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale', Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo
- Titel
- A frightening play: the element of horror in Hussein’s Mashetani
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-328940
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili-Forum - 24.2017
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Jahrgang: 24
Seiten: 37-61
ISSN: 1614-2373 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2017
- Abstract (EN)
- This paper attempts an analysis of Ebrahim Hussein’s drama Mashetani through a critical approach based on the dimension of horror. Despite the pervasive strength of this element in Mashetani, it has rarely been considered as anything more than a mere stylistic element in a vision of this drama which approaches its contents only, using allegory. In this study, Mashetani will be read from a different point of view, which sees the horrific element as bearer of new contents and new subjects not always reachable through an allegorical interpretation, in order not only to make a contribution to literary criticism of this drama, but also to emphasize how horror can acquire an analytic function besides its stylistic role.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Hussein, horror, demon, unheimliche, drama
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Universität Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-328940
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 31.01.2019
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis