The Islands are Inhabited Only by Women: Ethereal Worlds, Ethereal Others and Selves Depicted in Hikayat Tamīm Al-Dāri and Wonder Woman (2017)

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10.2991/978-2-38476-313-9_8How to use a DOI?

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Tamīm Al-Dāri; Wonder Woman (2017); comparative literature; travel writing; Carl Thompson

Abstract

Tamīm Al-Dāri is an enigmatic historical figure who is often associated with Islamic eschatology. His story became the basis for various medieval stories in the Arab, European, and Classical Malay worlds. In the hikayat, there is a story fragment that is similar to the film Wonder Woman (2017) related to a journey to strange island inhabited only by women. I will compare these two things within the framework of travel writing. This study aims is to examine how the self, the other, and the world are reported in Hikayat Tamīm Al-Dāri and Wonder Woman (2017). This Study is based on Carl Thomson’s theory of travel literature related to the self, the other, and reporting the world. The hermeneutic phenomenology method is used ti analyze how Tamīm Al-Dāri's journey is seen as lived experience and structured through consciousness that is open to interpretation as an inevitable configuration of “being in the world”. The resultof the study show that Hikayat Tamīm Al-Dāri and Wonder Woman (2017) use Janused-face technique in reporting ethereal realms; othering to explain the others encountered in the ethereal world; and uses fashioning in reflecting the core of the self.

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AU  - Herpin Nopiandi Khurosan
AU  - Aulia Wilda Sholikhah
AU  - Muhammad Irham Maolana
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/07
TI  - The Islands are Inhabited Only by Women: Ethereal Worlds, Ethereal Others and Selves Depicted in Hikayat Tamīm Al-Dāri and Wonder Woman (2017)
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture and Sustainable Development (ICOCAS 2024)
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