Allegorical Fiction: on the Novel Self (“That”) by Sonallah Ibrahim

Volume 6|Issue 23| Winter 2018 |Articles

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyze the ironic fiction of self,  by Sonallah Ibrahim, through the rhetorical devices and literary techniques available to the writer of ironic fiction. The author applies these devices both in commentary within the narrative itself and with meta-narratives. The research does not focus on the sequencing or alternation of these structural forms but rather looks at the structure of the narrative discourse, which dwarfs every aspect of the narrative text, thus taking a macro-narrative approach. The text has been criticized for the contradictions used by the author as a technique to highlight the illusions of his characters; illusions that ultimately led to the deterioration of their lives. The novel shakes the structures of power discourses to challenge claims of truth.

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Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University Of Sultan Moulay Sulaiman, Beni Mellal, Morocco. For his thesis entitled: "Formulas of the Narrative Discourse: Analysis of Three Novel Types", he was awarded a Third Level Doctoral Diploma in Advanced Studies (MA). His published studies include: "The Backgrounds of Narrative Development"; "The Seduction of the Tale and the Curse of Memory in the Novel “Fresh Soap” by Ibrahim Al-Hajri"; "Writing as Storytelling: The Body as an area of Uneasy Friction"; "Carlos Fuentes: In Praise of Hybrid Culture"; and “The Maze of Narrative: the determinism of violence and reversal of fortunes, and  “Narrative Stories as Exceptions to Excessively Painful Existence".

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