Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant Man

The Other, whose presence is essential for the construction of the Self, has almost always been depicted peculiarly in the literary texts of the East and the West. The investigation of Jalal al-Din Rumi’s parables and Bernard Pomerance’s play, albeit the genres, time, place, and cultures are totally...

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Main Author: Samira Sasani
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Published: University of Osijek 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/405984
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description The Other, whose presence is essential for the construction of the Self, has almost always been depicted peculiarly in the literary texts of the East and the West. The investigation of Jalal al-Din Rumi’s parables and Bernard Pomerance’s play, albeit the genres, time, place, and cultures are totally different—Rumi’s parables are classical Persian poems and Pomerance’s work is a modern American play—well indicates how the Other is mistakenly delineated and how the Colonizer’s attempt at making the Other “almost the same, but not quite”—as Bhabha states—fails and leads to the unsophisticated fabrication of the Other. Self is well understood in relation to the understanding of the Other. In this research, it is shown how both the Other and the Colonizer fail when there is no thorough mutual understanding.
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spelling doaj.art-f443a92de1e142f080e5b1bd599609cd2024-04-15T17:50:53ZdeuUniversity of OsijekAnafora1849-23392459-51602022-01-01IX112113810.29162/ANAFORA.v9i1.7Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant ManSamira Sasani0Shiraz University, IranThe Other, whose presence is essential for the construction of the Self, has almost always been depicted peculiarly in the literary texts of the East and the West. The investigation of Jalal al-Din Rumi’s parables and Bernard Pomerance’s play, albeit the genres, time, place, and cultures are totally different—Rumi’s parables are classical Persian poems and Pomerance’s work is a modern American play—well indicates how the Other is mistakenly delineated and how the Colonizer’s attempt at making the Other “almost the same, but not quite”—as Bhabha states—fails and leads to the unsophisticated fabrication of the Other. Self is well understood in relation to the understanding of the Other. In this research, it is shown how both the Other and the Colonizer fail when there is no thorough mutual understanding.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/405984self, other, Rumi, Pomerance, Mathnavi, The Elephant Man
spellingShingle Samira Sasani
Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant Man
Anafora
self, other, Rumi, Pomerance, Mathnavi, The Elephant Man
title Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant Man
title_full Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant Man
title_fullStr Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant Man
title_full_unstemmed Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant Man
title_short Self Is Meaningless When the Other Is Not Truly Understood: Revisiting the Persian Mystical Parables of Rumi’s Mathnavi and Pomerance’s The Elephant Man
title_sort self is meaningless when the other is not truly understood revisiting the persian mystical parables of rumi s mathnavi and pomerance s the elephant man
topic self, other, Rumi, Pomerance, Mathnavi, The Elephant Man
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