Imaginary characters outside their fictional world. Ghaib Tuma Farman's daughters are an example.

Abstract

The phenomenon of fictional characters leaving their original narrative worlds and appearing in other texts, or being reused in different spaces, is one of the most prominent features of postmodernism in narrative. as literary texts are no longer closed in on themselves, but have become open spaces where texts, times and places intersect in what is known as intertextuality or cross-textual writing. This is where the novel Banat Gaib Ta'ma Farman by Iraqi novelist Khudair Faleh al-Zaydi gains its importance, It evokes the character of the Iraqi novelist, known as the spiritual father of characters who represent and question reality. The research uses a narrative-analytical approach to reveal the mechanisms of transformation in the character's function and new representations after its liberation from the context of its original texts.