payman salehi; moslem khezeli
Abstract
Metafiction is a post-modern narrative style in which the author tries to show its fictionality and story-likeness in different ways and reduce his god-like authority in narrating the ...
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Metafiction is a post-modern narrative style in which the author tries to show its fictionality and story-likeness in different ways and reduce his god-like authority in narrating the events of the story. In this narrative method, the author avoids the rules of traditional and classic narration and highlights the artificiality of the story with metafictional techniques. This method of narration was also noticed by the writers of Arabic literature and many writers created famous meta-stories with this method of narration. Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian writer, is also one of the authors who used the metafictional technique in the novel "Hina Al Warda". Therefore, the present research has analyzed the application of metafiction narrative method in the mentioned novel with a descriptive-analytical method and stated the author's goals of using this narrative method. Based on the findings of the research, with the help of metafictional techniques such as short connection, criticism of the story and referring to the way of writing the story, the combination of genres and styles and the uncertainty and multi-completion of the story, Nasser highlights the constructedness of his novel and with his interventions and metafictional comments, he connects the imaginary world of the story and the reality world and gives the reader an active role in the narrative process.
