ABSTRACT

Reading The Wedding of Zein (1962) by Tayeb Salih from a Bakhtinian perspective can be helpful to trace the revolutionary touch that marks the novel. As the world of Rabelais celebrates the unofficial discourse of the festive life standing against the strictures of the feudal culture, the same celebration of the festive time in terms of merry moments of unbridled indulgence of feasting, joking and folk festivities in the carnival type could be mapped out in the narrative of The Wedding of Zein. The latter presents a reconciliatory vision to syncretise the social and spiritual worlds so as to materialise the delighted and optimistic world that Salih is panting for. The vision of the dream world of Salih collides with a harsh world involving an identity crisis. A facet of the ideal world that Salih heads to undertake lies in cancelling out the identity privileges that are determining in the social, economic and political life. In theory, the carnivalesque implications including the dismantling of hierarchies and the celebration of popular culture are the same principles postmodernism feeds upon. To this end, in view of postmodernism, Salih makes out of the narrative of The Wedding of Zein a carnival to suspend all the hierarchical prerogatives. Similar to Bakhtin as he disrupts the hierarchical social stratification privileging the bourgeois group through the gay time of the wedding, Salih interrogates the official discourse at the time of state building predicated upon the legacy of colonialism, excluding different groups from the Sudanese identity.

摘要

从巴赫金的角度阅读Tayeb Salih的《Zein 的婚礼》（1962 年）有助于追溯标志着这部小说的革命性风格。当拉伯雷的世界庆祝反对封建文化限制的节日生活的非官方话语时，在狂欢节类型中肆无忌惮地放纵盛宴、开玩笑和民间庆祝活动的欢乐时刻，同样可以庆祝节日时间。映射在Zein 的婚礼的叙述中. 后者提出了一种调和的愿景，将社会和精神世界融合在一起，以实现萨利赫渴望的快乐和乐观的世界。Salih 的梦想世界的愿景与一个涉及身份危机的严酷世界相撞。萨利赫走向理想世界的一个方面在于取消决定​​社会、经济和政治生活的身份特权。从理论上讲，狂欢式的影响包括拆除等级制度和庆祝流行文化是后现代主义所依赖的相同原则。为此，萨利赫从后现代主义的角度出发，将《泽因的婚礼》的叙事一场暂停所有等级特权的狂欢。与巴赫金相似，他通过婚礼的同性恋时间打破了赋予资产阶级群体特权的等级社会分层，萨利赫质疑了基于殖民主义遗产的国家建设时期的官方话语，将不同群体排除在苏丹身份之外。