Author name:
عمار ابراهيم عزت محمد
Supervisor name:
هادي شعلان حمد البطحاوي
Abstract:
The novel , as an incomplete genre regarding Bakhtin's saying , includes the literary genres immanent to it like a story , poetry , a play and even not immanent to it , like the cinema , the journalistic reportage , the TV reports , the history , the heritage and the others. In addition to its impregnation for the theoretical, political, ideological and social speeches. Therefore, this made it as a narrative closet the researchers, the critics and the readers can get information from it cultural and knowledgeable treasures. This interest of the novel has reflected its genres limits, its narrative board, its structure, its formulation and type…etc., on the creative writers. So there was a variety in the different narrative levels, in addition to the availability of the local, Arab and world novel production in away making you believe the saying (the age of novel). Perhaps, this was a primary stimulus to choose the novel genre as a topic for the research. The more important motive has two dimension : a general one is to highlight the Iraqi novelistic achievement resulting from the feverish competition of the Iraqi novelists on having the novelistic narration enablers that qualify their works to the Arab and world levels. That is because of the cultural and literary openness about the world after the political and social change in 2003.Such openness has contributed to formalize a picture for the Iraqi novelistic achievement until it has been considered as a phenomenon attracting the local, Arab and the global reader ,revealed by the critical studies and a lot of researches. In addition to, some novels were translated to another languages and the participation as well as winning of some solid works during Arab and world competitions; the other dimension is specially discovered by the answer about someone's question (why is the novel : " Frankenstein in Baghdad"?) The researcher and his supervisor chose the novel (Frankenstein in Baghdad) prove that this novel is a valid sample to criticize. It is a narrative sample imbued the world ,Arab and Iraqi novelistic discourse ;for instance ,its subjects ,techniques ,styles; moreover, it is employing the views of modernism and post modernism.Many people considered it as one of good Iraqi novels, it belongs to the narrations which found their aesthetics on the ugliness of reality, it absorbs the reality but at the same time, violates it narratively, it smashes the hard and wins for the margin sitting in the bottom of society.throughout criticizing an condemnation the social reality which of the society and its lamination. Like the other novels which were done before or after it, it engaged with identity narration, it is a novelistic genre dealing with the (identity) : its form, its conflict, its crisis, its ambiguity and its lamination..etc. as a topic. The presence of the identity theme from one novel to another came in a way of suggestion or symbolizing, encryption and signals to realize such aim. The research falls into three chapters : the first one is entitled (The Narration of Identity); the second one is under the title : (the symbolic structure) and the third one is entitled : (The textual Interaction).Such kind of division was done according to the understanding of the novel limits, its different spaces, its worlds and its opens on the general novelistic discourse. The first chapter deals with the identity problematic : its lamentation, its crisis, focusing on the novelistic world adapting with the reality (the structure of the place and time, the natural characters besides the narrative historical and the political document).It was also divided in three studies under the subtitles : (The Narrative Identity of place, "The Lamination of the Identity 'The Crisis of Belonging an "The Ideological Speeches and Their Effect on a Lamination of the Identity"). The second chapter : ( the magic, legendary, the myths and the miraculous), includes three studies : ("The Action of Symbolizing in Constructing the Narrative worlds", "The Symbolism of the Fabricating structures and it References", and then, "The Margin of the Narrative Board and the centralization of the Margin.).The third chapter is based on theory of the open text so the textural interaction was its topic. It reveals the textual relations which the novel (Frankenstein in Baghdad) held, concentrating his critical views on the intertextuality a textual inevitability to no alternative and a mechanism the creator employed consciously or unconsciously which transforms his novel to the mosaic by its impregnating the texts before, in addition to the creator's ability in integrating and employing these texts in a form which highlights the uniqueness of the work in spite of absorption of another texts. The researcher employed the inter textuality as a critical procedure and able revealing tool to access the deep layers of the text searching for the textual effects. It includes the subtitles : (The Relation of the Textual Interaction, and "The forms of the Textual References."). The research depended on the relations of the textual interactions based on what Gerard Ginette achieved. The interactive forms are divided according to the compromising view for what the previous critics did. So there are two forms of the textual interaction : (internal textual interaction and external textual interaction; the first one studies the textual inter actions within the limits of the novelistic genre while the other one opens on the textual interactions outside the boundaries of the genre such as heritage, the cinema, the poetry………….etc. That socio - cultural method was the nearest to the subjects which the research studied. The study releases from a vision putting the novelistic text in the cultural and social sitter; it is previously involved in the mental, intellectual, philosophical, social, political and ideological system. Like that, the novelistic text is involved with the general discourse that absorbs the present momenta discourse in relation with the past and the future. Anyway, the novel is concerned with the suggestion of a possible world instead of existing world and introducing a world vision the creator adopts in his work. The difficulties of the research are that there are only few studies dealing with the novelist's achievement, Ahmed Saedawi, except some of articles and references about the Iraqi novel which most of them were published on the internet. However, most of them can't do a scientific well - research. So it is a founding research in its theoretical and practical level for the reach to the critical view able to cover our studying text as a form and a content. God would bless
