ما وراء القص التاريخي في رواية قواعد العشق الأربعون وأثره في الرواية العربية (دراسة تناصية مقارنة)

Abstract

In this paper, the researcher explores the intersections of historical, social, cultural, and political discourses in the novels under study: The Forty Rules of Love by Turkish-American author Elif Shafak, The Guardian of Divine Love by Egyptian author Adham El-Aboudy, and A Small Death by Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan. The study aims to reveal the intertextual patterns of the Sufi image through the concept of metatextuality, which stems from intentional deviations and the layered meanings embedded by the novelists in their narrative texts. This has led the researcher to classify these works within the framework of postmodern discourses, from which the novels draw elements of postmodern philosophy.

The analysis is grounded in post-historical narrative theory and the method of analytical intertextuality. The researcher analyzes the novels through a postmodern lens that encourages a harmonious blend of innovation and tradition, as well as past and present, by examining the dynamics of influence and the lens of intertextuality. The study investigates how the narrators integrate history into fiction, and the techniques they use to shape the metahistorical nature of the text by blending diverse texts and discourses to create a unique and multi-layered meaning within a single narrative.

This intertextual integration of historical and postmodern narrative in the novels plays a crucial role in uncovering the multiple layered meanings, beliefs, and ideologies embedded in the texts, thereby contributing to the creation of new meanings through multiplicity and the extraction of the ideological discourses that underlie the core structures of the novels.