Levels of representation of the marginalized in the Arabic novel. Approach in selected Models

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قسم البلاغة والنقد الأدبي والأدب المقارن بكلية دار العلوم جامعة القاهرة

Abstract

This research aims to approach four Arabic novels of various environments; These novels are: “Al fa’el” by the Egyptian writer Hamdi Abu Jalil (2008), “Al-Jango, the Nails of the Earth” by the Sudanese writer Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin (2008), “Black Taste, Black Smell” by the Yemeni writer Ali Al-Maqri (2009), and “The Migration to the Cemeteries” by the Yemeni writer Ammar Al-Sururi (2018). This is to reveal the levels of representation of the marginalized in their narratives. The hypothesis that the research tried to test; That the marginalized is represented in the Arabic novel in more than one level, so it graduated from the level in which it has the ability to act marginalization, and another level in which marginalization is an expression of the homogeneity of one group more than an expression of exclusion, while the third level comes in which marginalization is a representative of a stage of exclusion that ends in ethnic cleansing. For this purpose, the research relied on a sociocultural approach that focuses on cultural and ideological manifestations in the narrative discourse of the studied novels.

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