Inspiration from the folklore in the novel (Ribat al-Walaya): The imaginary scene and the problem of naturalization

Abstract

This study proceeds from the hypothesis that the novel is a memory open to folklore in all its forms. In order to answer a central question that focuses on how to receive the popular heritage in the Saudi novel, and hence the importance of this study, which considers the novel a later text that was written earlier, and to consolidate this hypothesis, the pictorial component in the novel (Ribat al-Walaiya) was highlighted as a reservoir full of popular intertexts. Farida, an employee of a documentary photographic panorama, in which narration mixes with dramatic dialogue, as it is generally an artistic template of a hybrid documentary nature, but it is important in several aspects, perhaps the most prominent of which is that it absorbed the heritage of Hijazi women, and contributed a great role in employing and preserving it on the ground, and on the one hand Others embodied through this text the imposition of the dialogicity of the fictional text, its superior ability to absorb other arts. The tasks of this research are summarized in an attempt to employ the techniques of visual semiotics. To reveal the manifestations of the inspiration of the folklore in the novel (Ribat al-Walaiya), and to research its methods of employment, patterns of its operation, and its role in shaping the structure of the fictional text. Therefore, the course of this research is limited to two directions; The first: it is concerned with observing the heritage manifestations, and the second: it studies the relationship of the oral heritage texts with the photographic memory that recorded the arts of folklore related to the world of women, such as clothing, jewelry, utensils, and so on.