April 25, 2024

Mohammad Javad Pourabed

Academic Rank: Associate professor
Address: Persian Gulf University, Boushehr, Iran
Degree: Ph.D in Arabic Language and Literature
Phone: 09155255007
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Research

Title
Metanarrative: its types; functions and structural representations in the novels of Amir Taj Al-Sir
Type Thesis
Keywords
المبنى الميتاسردي، ميتاشخصية، أمير تاج السر، الثيمات، الرواية
Researchers Ali Khezri (Primary advisor) , Rasoul Balavi (Advisor) , Mohammad Javad Pourabed (Advisor)

Abstract

There are novels and stories that are full of themes and techniques that make the reader return to ancient texts, To the writer him(her)self, or to other writers, especially if the author presents him(her)self in the narrative text, which make it difficult for the researcher, then the text must be studied in the context of the metanarrative building to reveal what is among as well as beyond the text and criticism of the narrative text. Among the Arab novelists who paid great attention to writing the metanarrative text, similar to postmodernism, and at different levels, is the Sudanese writer Amir Taj Al-Sir, especially in the novels that the research will address, where events, characters, plot, and themes are intertwined between them in a level the reader thinks that they are One novel, or it is serial. What the research wants to discuss is the oscillation between fiction and reality in novels, And the recipient’s participation in the imaginary and illusory structural representations and how the reader gets involved in the narration method more than the subject of the novel. Especially the author's method of diluting the boundaries between the novelist him(her)self and one of the characters of the novel, and topics such as metacharacter, metaplot, and imaginary metaphors. The hoarding of novels with common themes and their cracking were found in the metanarrative text, and the novelist's use of meta-literature technology and his narcissistic tendency surrounded by criticism. This study is based on the descriptive-analytical approach, and one of its features is to return to the previous text as a comparative study or internal intertextuality, and it needs a balance between the novels, to reveal the metanarratives of the narrators, the event, and the characters. During the analysis, it turns out that Amir Taj Al-Sir was familiar with the metanarrative technique, as he used the different levels of the metanarrative text, one of the most important findings of the resea