An exploration of Oikospoetics in Oorkuval (The Vigil)‎: a Malayalam Novel of Sara Joseph

Other Title(s)

نماط المحيط في رواية "اليقظة" للكاتبة الهندية سارة جوزيف

Author

Husayn, Ilham Husayn Abd Allah

Source

Philology : Literature and Linguistics Series

Issue

Vol. 2018, Issue 70 (30 Jun. 2018), pp.63-90, 28 p.

Publisher

Ain Shams University Faculty of al-Alson

Publication Date

2018-06-30

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

28

Main Subjects

Comparative Literature

Abstract EN

Oorukaval (2008), translated as The Vigil (2014), is a contemporary realistic adaptation of the ancient Indian epic of the legendary hero Ramayana, written in glorification of his heroic war against a demon prince.

Sara Joseph (b.

1946) reintroduced the ancient myth from an oikospoetic approach, dismissing war as irrelevant to contemporary age, as she asserts an utter integration between the human, the nonhuman, the sacred, the natural, and the cultural, within an anti-war, anti-imperialist, ecological frame.

The work is not gender oriented.

Sara Joseph divided the linearity of the narrative into two axes: the horizontal and the vertical.

Each axe encompasses a distinct division of oikoi.

The oikospoetic structure corresponds to the temporal line: prewar, war, postwar eras.

The paper aims to analyze oikospoetics in Joseph’s The Vigil, to clear the confusion between oikospoetics, ecofeminism, and ecopetics, and to bring into universal focus the literature of the third world minorities.

The results show that oikospoetics is not identical with either ecofeminism or ecopoetics.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Husayn, Ilham Husayn Abd Allah. 2018. An exploration of Oikospoetics in Oorkuval (The Vigil): a Malayalam Novel of Sara Joseph. Philology : Literature and Linguistics Series،Vol. 2018, no. 70, pp.63-90.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-940177

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Husayn, Ilham Husayn Abd Allah. An exploration of Oikospoetics in Oorkuval (The Vigil): a Malayalam Novel of Sara Joseph. Philology : Literature and Linguistics Series No. 70 (Jun. 2018), pp.63-90.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-940177

American Medical Association (AMA)

Husayn, Ilham Husayn Abd Allah. An exploration of Oikospoetics in Oorkuval (The Vigil): a Malayalam Novel of Sara Joseph. Philology : Literature and Linguistics Series. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 70, pp.63-90.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-940177

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Record ID

BIM-940177