Gender and Colonialism. An Approach to The Novel "Alnabidha" by Inaam Kachachi

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The literary criticism, department. The high institution of Art criticism. The Art Academy. Egypt, .

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In this study, the researcher examines the relationship between women and nation from the perspective presented in the novel of” Al-nabidha” by the Iraqi writer Inaam Kachachi, which is the perspective of the relationship between gender and colonialism., This study seeks to read the network of relationships between males and females in the novel of “Al-nabidha” under the title of "Chased Femininity Rebels Against the Omniscient Narrator", attempting to reveal the extent of the effectiveness of gender in determining the fate of each character, after removing the social, ideological and national covers from it, and thus looking at its role in crystallizing awareness of the self and the world.
After that, the researcher will shed light on the ideological, political and national covers that conceal the level of the relationship between masculinity and femininity in this novel "Al-Nabitha" by addressing the relationship of gender with the intersections of national authority and colonialism, and then the impact of this relationship in the novel's imagination of the history of Baghdad from the perspective of two women who grew in their bodies different consciousnesses of the self and the world. Accordingly, these two women constructed two imagined nations of extreme contrast for one Baghdad. At the end of this study, the researcher explains how a male mind was simulated in constructing gender identity, and then how this construction was undermined through the narrative plan of the novel!

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