Abstract
Labyrinth and Savior: Readings in the harvest of the battle of
"mirrors"
Battle of mirrors is one of the biggest critical battles in the
last twenty years. It has started when ‘Abd Al-Aziz Hammudah
issued his book: “The convex mirrors” in 1998, whereas he
criticized the Structuralism and Deconstructionism declaring their
falling of introducing a critical alternative of the other schools.
Then, he published “The concave mirrors” in 2001, whereas he
attacked the Arab modernists who translated the western theories
wrongly and minimized the image of the Arab heritage
intentionally. Then, he published his third book: “The exit of maze”
in 2003 in which he tried to define the features of the alternative
critical theory. These three books have been considered as the
most important Arab critical works in the last two decades, which
enabled the author to obtain the State Award for the Arts and
Literature in 2002. Actually, the battle caught the attention of the
majority of Arab thinkers to participate in this critical war.The
researcher attempts to summarize its fruitful harvest and its
dimensions: Timing, whence the United States of America tried to
impose its cultural model on the world; Seriousness of its issue
whereas is not that it is a personal debate between ‘Abd Al-Aziz
Hammudah and Jabir Asfour, but the originality vs Westernization;
Privacy of the critic who is one of few who combined the
experience of Arab heritage with Western theories; The creative
titles, as the author chose the rhetorical titles for his series
summarizing the contents perfectly; The huge echoes that
covered the Arab world from Ocean to Gulf; and finally the
magnificent results, especially regarding the suggestion to reread
the Arab heritage and western theories as well.
أ.د. مصطفى محمد رزق السواحلي . (2019) "المتاهـة والمخلص قراة في حصـــاد معــــركة "المـــرايا, Majallah Al-Qism Al-Arabi, Volume 26, Issue 1.
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