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The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El-Saadawi
其他書名
God Resigns and Isis
出版Saqi, 2012-02-27
主題Drama / Middle EasternLiterary Criticism / African
ISBN08635681229780863568121
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RkAhBQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Nawal El Saadawi's most recent play, God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadawi with insulting the "Almighty God", not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to Egypt and her Egyptian nationality be revoked. In the play, the prophets and great women gather for a meeting with God. Satan arrives to tender his resignation but neither Jesus, nor Mohammad, nor Moses are willing to replace him. Finally, God himself resigns. The second play in this collection is Isis, a critique of the discriminatory rules that control women, the daughters of Isis. Both God Resigns and Isis incorporate key themes to El Saadawi's work: that all religions are inimical to women and the poor, that the oppression of women is reprehensible and not uniquely characteristic of the Middle East or the "Third World", and that free speech is fundamental to any society.