Representations of the Affect Scripts in Yussef El-Guindi’s Hotter Than Egypt

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Matrouh university

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This paper uniquely explores the scenes depicting couples’ relationships in Yussef El-Guindi’s Hotter Than Egypt (2023). It delves into the scripts of affects, shedding light on ‘the death of the subject’ as a stable self. The study uncovers the role of affects in motivating, guiding, and amplifying the intensity and quality of emotional behaviours, drawing from Silvan S. Tomkins’s affect-script theory. This novel approach to affect-script reading of the play underscores the importance of the affective turn as a lens for the literary analysis of characters and the narrative events. It represents the bodily experience as a site of resistance, alongside other experiences such as thoughts and words. Moreover, representing affects as motivators, guides, and units of scripts of the human personality and behaviour in Hotter Than Egypt enrich the deconstructionist and poststructuralist trajectory of representing the concept of the subject and subjectivity. This approach highlights the affective experiences and their scripts as an interpretation and motivating model, aiding in understanding the ups and downs of couples’ lives in Hotter Than Egypt.

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