Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987)

A Critique of Post-Colonial Utopianism

Bibliographic Data

ID11660951
AuthorsMarwa Alkhayat (0000-0003-0156-2139, Ahram Canadian University, corresponding author), Marwa Essam Eldin Fahmy Alkhayat
Year2021
Volume43
Issue3
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArab Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0271-3519 • E-ISSN: 2043-6920
PublisherPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/arabstudquar.43.3.0230
OpenAlexW3192377503
LanguageEN
References cited16

The present study examines the aesthetic features of Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987) through Karl-Heinz Bohrer's “Utopia of the Subject” to foreground Homo's quest for a wished-for yet unattainable reality. Post-Colonial Utopianism depicts man's inner turmoil to force an act of willful rethinking to enhance the “anticipatory consciousness” of a better life, a point interrogated within Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope to propose the concept of the “Not-Yet-Become”: the not realized futuristic reality. Therefore, the interest is in utopia/dystopia historicities as analytical markers of historical inquiry to analyze specific space/time coordinates; post-colonial pitfalls of a technoscience dystopia. As such, the remarkable characteristic of Post-Colonial Utopianism is critique, and “Subjective Utopia” strives to achieve a breach in the teleological ideology of historical structures; thereby, transformation is the central aesthetic strategy of post-colonial critique

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Consciousness · Dystopia · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Historicity (philosophy · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Teleology · Utopia · History · Law · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction