The Female Narration in Shahd Al-Rawi’s “Baghdad Clock”
Munjid Ramadan Salih Abbad
Tikrit University / College of Arts / Department of Arabic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.4.2.18
Keywords: Narrative, female, narrator witnessed, Baghdad watch, the novel
Abstract
The novel responds to the female presence more than other literary genres, as its narrative elements contribute to receiving the female discourse and supplying it by expressing their thoughts, emotions, and gentle voices, and exploring their subconscious spaces by expressing their value. Women’s issues, and for this reason feminist writings rose to establish glory for women in parallel with what the man wrote, in addition to the importance of the central female presence in building the narrative space and her presence on the narration scene because the female narrator differs from the male narrator who dominated the scene by presenting the relationships of women through masks, and here this cry achieves a revolution Against the adoption of masculinity all the joints of life. The appearance of a woman and her call to live her world and express herself without feeling the dominance of the family (father/brother) was shaped when she observed perspectives that feed into her literary production through her relationship with her body or with the man, because writing about herself makes her more honest than the man, as this appeared through Feminist creativity in literary practice, so it seemed active and productive, and had a speciality with its awareness, language, independence of speech and thinking. The spontaneous dreaming child with a scene conveying the development of the life stages of women and the places mentioned in them and the relationships with family and friends, passing through the primary school stage and then university, which witnessed the great shift in her life, her ideas and her relations with others, as well as the transformation of the narrative language from its spontaneity to its maturity in proportion to age, and the novel showed Techniques in presentation and qualitative transitions transcended the linear narration in classic novels, mixing with imagination and activating the senses effectively and in a language that sought to sharpen The feminine atmosphere by conducting the tale obtained on the current real woman issue, because Shahd Al-Rawi is the character of the novel.
