"الخطاب على الخطاب" و"ما وراء القص": دراسة سردية من خلال ثلاث روايات مختارة

A NARRATOLOGICAL STUDY OF META-NARRATION AND METAFICTION IN THREE SELECTED ARABIC NOVELS

Abstract

The paper is an analytical narratological study of two postmodern techniques: Meta-narration and Metafiction in the selected novels of Ibrahim Nasrallah (Jordon) and Rabii Al-Madhoon (Palestine): the two icons of contemporary Arabic fiction. The paper identifies various aspects of the above mentioned techniques with the insight into the selected texts breaking the fictional limitations between the narrator, the narratee and the fictional world. Meta-narration statements are found at discourse level and Metafictional statements are found at story and discourse levels. The paper highlights the meta-narration and metafictional comments found in a good quantity throughout the selected novels where the fictionality of the personality of narrator, the narrate, fictional characters, and the personality of the author are found overtly. The narrator overtly comments on fictional events and characters. The narrator also comments on the sequence of what he is narrating. Moreover, the fictional characters interact with each other breeching from diegetic level into the extradiegetic level.