A View from the Moon: Allegories of Representation in Tawfiq al-Hakim and H.G. Wells

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This article presents a comparative reading of Egyptian playwright Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm’s play Poet on the Moon (1972) and British science-fiction author H. G. Wells’ novel The First Men in the Moon (1901). It reveals new insights on al-Ḥakīm’s familiarity with Wells and examines his contribution to transnational drama through a discussion of his theater of the mind in the framework of his “intellectual popular non-realism.” This article argues that both authors employ allegories of representation to question the limits of scientific knowledge and artistic expression, yet al-Ḥakīm asserts a transnational aesthetics inspired by Sufism to challenge colonial epistemologies.

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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 39
Merve Tabur
Merve Tabur
Öğretim Görevlisi/Araştırmacı

Orta Doğu ve Anglofon diasporalarından spekülatif kurgu, film ve görsel sanatlarda çevresel yıkımın nasıl tasvir edildiğine odaklanan bir karşılaştırmalı edebiyat ve çevresel beşeri bilimler akademisyeniyim.