The structure of the narrative discourse of Radwa Ashour, the novel (Faraj) as a model

Abstract

The narrative texts in the novel "Faraj" by "Radwa Ashour", the Egyptian novelist, bear the pains and hopes that passed through the Arab society. The study of the structure of the narrative discourse in this novel will inevitably indicate the serious issues that the Arabs faced and recorded in history. The important question that this study seeks to answer is: How does the discourse reflect Radwa Ashour's thought, her narrative visions, and her social reality? After studying the novel “Faraj”, it becomes clear to us that in the novel “Faraj”, the writer employed a simple language that suits the characters, so she came to the tongue of the narrator in the first person. Speaking from the French language, and this indicates the breadth of its culture, and the aim is to draw the features of the personalities and clearly highlight the lived reality, in addition to the ideological, cultural and religious conflict between civilizations. With regard to the vision of the religious heritage, the writer made the discourse an ideological, historical and cultural dimension, and this made the narrative rich in her intellectual and religious visions that carry semantic dimensions of the legacy of the issues that the Arab person lives with, and floundering in its folds that are full of dualities. I delivered "Ashour" to the recipient A letter worth contemplating and reflecting on. The narrative discourse of "Ashour" shows that she is a writer committed to humanitarian issues, especially the Palestinian cause, and preserving the heritage that makes us preserve the past and crystallize it in a modern way. The fictional discourse revealed Ashour's unique creativity in documenting history with deep and accurate critical insights. Her fictional discourse is nothing but a cultural fabric that preserves the past, builds on it in the present, and then adds awareness to the future. In this study, we relied on the structural-formative approach to reveal the structure of the narrative discourse of "Radwa Ashour" in her novel "Faraj".