The miraculous event after it, a criticism of ideology, a reading of the novel (The Wonders of Baghdad) by Ward Badr Al-Salem

Abstract

This study aims to read the miraculous event in the novel Wonders of Baghdad - an analytical reading - after it, as a critical means that exposes and exposes the ideological discourse behind power, regardless of the form of that power. This method takes advantage of the nature of the miraculous in that it knocks on doors and enters unfamiliar and illogical worlds, until it appears as if it is a mask behind which the writer hides to reveal what he cannot reveal in reality unless he escapes into imagination, either out of fear of a censor, or intensification and deepening of criticism, or A break from monotony and tradition. The study is based on two requirements: the first is theoretical, in which we stand on the most important defining stations of the concept of the miraculous, especially the Todorovian station, and the second: practical, through which we seek to track the miraculous texts in the novel and then prove that the miraculous is an effective critical means for ideological engagement.