Arabic Literature

Metafictional Analysis of the Novel "Hona Al Warde" by Amjad Nasser

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Payman Salehi 1
Moslem Khezeli 2

1 Profesor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran

2 Ph.D. Graduated in Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities Sciences, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.362739.612710
Abstract
Metafiction is a post-modern narrative method 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 "Hona Al Warde". Therefore, the present research has analyzed the application of the metafiction narrative method in the mentioned novel with a descriptive-analytical and statistical 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 reference to the way of writing the story, combining 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, the imaginary world It connects the story and the world of reality and gives the reader an active role in the narrative process

Keywords

Metafiction
metafictional techniques
storytelling
Amjad Nasser
Hona Alwarde
Subjects
Al-Sakr, H. (2017), The novel Hona Al-warde is about dreams, illusions, and everything in between. Al-Kalima Magazine, Issue 122, http://www.alkalimah.net. [In Arabic].
Cazzato, L. (2002). Metafiction of anxiety: Modes and meanings of the postmodern self-conscious novel. Michigan: The University of Michigan.
Currie, M. (2014). Metafiction. London & New York: Routledge Taylor& Fransis Group.
Hutcheon, L. (2004), Modernism and Postmodernism in the Novel (Historiographic Metafiction) (H. Payandeh, Trans.). Tehran: Rouznegar. [in Persian].  
Hutcheon, Linda. (2013). Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox. Wilfred Laurier University Press.
Khosh Ghaftar, A.&. Others. (2022), Analyzing postmodern existential fields in the play "Ibn al-Rumi fi Modun al-Safih" by Abdul Karim Barshid. Arabic Literature magazine, Volume14, Issue 3, pp. 89-107. [in Persian].  
Klinkowitz, Jerome. (1998). "Metafiction". The Encyclopedia of the Novel.Chicago, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
Lewis, B. (2004), Modernism and Postmodernism in the Novel: Postmodernism and Literature (H. Payandeh, Trans.). Tehran: Rouznegar. [in Persian]. 
Lodge, D. (2014), Postmodernist Novel: The Theories of the Novel from Realism to Postmodernism (H. Payandeh, Trans.). (1st ed.). Tehran: Rouznegar. [in Persian].  
Martin, W. (2007), Narrative Theories (M. Shahba, Trans.). (2nd ed.). Tehran: Hermes. [in Persian]. 
McHale, B., Hutcheon, L., Waugh, P., Hannayol, A., Fletcher, J., Bradbury, M., & Lewis, B. (2014), Modernism and Postmodernism in the Novel: Selection and Translation by Hossein Payandeh (1st ed.). Tehran: Niloufar. [in Persian]. 
Nasar, L. (2018), Hona Al-warde by Amjad Nasser, a novel of critical confusion. [In Arabic].
Nasser, A. (2017), Hona Al-warde (1st ed.). Beirut: Dar Al-Adab. [In Arabic].
Oufi, N. J. (2022), Features of Nostalgia in Amjad Nasser's Writings. Al-Wasat University, Humanities Journal, 6, 195-183. [In Arabic].
Payandeh, H. (2003), Critique Discourse: Articles in Literary Criticism. Tehran: Rouznegar. [in Persian]. 
Payandeh, H. (2009), Literary Criticism and Democracy. Tehran: Niloufar. [in Persian].  
Rabie, A. M. (2015), The Evolution of Poetry in Contemporary Jordanian Poetry 1980-2010 (1st ed.). Amman: Ministry of Culture. [In Arabic].
Sadri Khanlou, R. (2022), Provisions of metafiction and games in the novel Alanceyan's game. Arabic Literature magazine, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 21-41. [in Persian]. 
Shabaneh, O. (2018), Here is the Rose, by Amjad Nasser: Modern narrative methods. Al-Faisal Magazine. https://www.alfaisalmag.com. [In Arabic].
Shirkhani, M., & Khezeli, M. (2021), A Study of the Narrative Style of Metafiction in the Novel 'The Second War of the Dog'. Contemporary Arabic Literature Criticism, Yazd University, 11(22), 212-234. [in Persian]. 
Tadayyoni, M. (2009), Postmodernism in Iranian Fiction Literature: A Review of the Most Important Postmodernist Theories and Their Reflection in Contemporary Iranian Fiction. Tehran: Elm. [in Persian]. 
Ward, G. (2008), Modernism (Q. Fakhr Ranjbari & A. Karami, Trans.). Tehran: Mahi. [in Persian]. 
Waugh, P. (1996). Metafiction. London: Routledge.
Wu, P. (2011), Metafiction (S. Vaghfipour, Trans.). Tehran: Cheshmeh. [In Arabic].
Yazdanjoo, P. (2015), Postmodern Literature (Report, Perspective, and Criticism) (5th ed.). Tehran: Markaz. [in Persian]. 

  • Receive Date 23 July 2023
  • Revise Date 19 September 2023
  • Accept Date 01 December 2023

Home

Contact Us