Contrast: The Binary of Slavery and Liberty in Ahlam Mostaghanemy's Black is Suitable for You and its Role in the Text's Cohesion
Ayub Gorgees Al-Atiya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.2.1.2
Keywords: -Contrast - cohesion - aesthetis - nove - Mostaghanemi -Black is Suitable for You.
Abstract
Contrast is one of the figures f speech used in writing for rhetorical and
psychological reasons…. According to classical linguists it was a means
of decoration in the literary tects while for the contemporary
grammarians it isextended to be a device for the interpretation of the
text nd its cohesion. This paper is a study of contrast in Ahlam
Mostaghanemi's novel Black is Suitable for You, because there is
frequent use of contrast which is essential for the cohesion of the text
and its meaning to achieve rhetorical purposes and intellectual
psychological values. It becomes a structural network for linking the
parts of the text together. The paper therefore, is divided into an
introduction and four sections and it concludes that the novel is prolific
with examples of contrast, both verbal and semantic, represented in a
binary opposition which I called the binary of 'slavery" and "liberty"
