Alternative Histories in Youssef Ziedan's Azazeel : Historiographic Metafiction in the Contemporary Arabic Historical Novel) | ||||
| مجلة كلية الآداب - جامعة القاهرة | ||||
| Article 11, Volume 81, يناير علوم لغة - Serial Number 2, January 2021, Page 1-32 PDF (1.14 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarts.2021.68428.1119 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
هالة محمد کامل أمين أيوب 
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| جامعة بني سويف | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Alternative Histories in Youssef Ziedan's Azazeel: Historiographic Metafiction in the Contemporary Arabic Historical Novel Drawing on Linda Hutcheon's theory, this article reads Azazeel as a historiographic metafiction. It argues that the novel not only denounces the so-called religious, or religiously-motivated, violence but also has an additional epistemological import, articulated in the novel's historiographic metafictional narrative which, in accordance with Hutcheon's theory, provides an alternative history that foregrounds the 'narrativity' of historical narratives and represents the past from a 'marginal' perspective to question the absolute authority of metanarratives, undermine monolithic notions of knowledge, and develop a balanced production and dissemination of knowledge. The article examines the novel's use of historiographic metafictional techniques which reflect its thematic content and its espousal of the postmodern ideology of diversity and plurality. The article demonstrates that, without denying its heritage, Azazeel engages with the global postmodern condition, locates the Arabic historical novel within the wider context of world historical fiction, and opens up new avenues for research on historiographic metafiction. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| historical novel; postmodernism; metafiction | ||||
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