Rhetoric of Feminine Narrative Discourse in Batool Al-Khudiairi’s “Ghayib” (Absent): An Applied Approach

Bunian Mohammed Al-Nadawi, Nahla

	Rhetoric of Feminine Narrative Discourse in Batool Al-Khudiairi’s “Ghayib” (Absent): An Applied Approach
Journal of College of Education
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 203-229
Author
Nahla Bunian Mohammed Al-Nadawi
Abstract
Batool Al-Khudiairi’s “Ghayib” (Absent) documents the economic embargo period and the dramatic changes witnessed by the Iraqi society. The author tried to embod the historic, social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the society. Over such documentation, she focused on the memory of the untalked of, which seems to be lacking historical origins: daily life, instincts, and other direct occupations of individuals. Thus, she documented the active history; a term used by Michel Foucault to describe the memory that deals with events in their unique characteristics and its sharp edged aspects. It documented how the human soul was ruined by being crushed in the grinder of the economic embargo enforced by external powers. All of such narration is made from a feminine point of view, giving it an additional uniqueness in the midst of that commotion and that breakdown and construction. The study deliberately treated the narrative discourse components on the basis of how rhetorical means are utilized and the ensuing use of denotations, making use of the efforts of contemporary researchers who had not limited rhetorical treatment to poetic discourse, especially the researcher, Mohammed Anqar, a pioneer in the novel rhetoric study project, and Mohammed Mishbal. The study pinpointed the most prominent rhetorical techniques in the novel elements with narrative function. The selection of such elements was made on the basis of their centralization of use, first, and how they formed a focal point to which other kinds or rhetoric techniques used in this or that element were connected. Thereupon, the study consisted of three chapters. Chapter one focused on metaphors in the spatial element, being the main type on which other used rhetoric kinds were built. Chapter two dealt with the technique of brevity and laconism and circumlocution in the temporal element. Finally, chapter three revolved around the rhetoric of the artistic image. It consisted of two main parts: (a) similes and their narrative functions, (b) metaphor and antonomasia. The study ended with a conclusion summarizing the most prominent results reached.

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