The metaphorical image in the Iraqi women's novel

Abstract

A group of critical terms were introduced by modern studies.  They were used in the novel within the narrative structure.  Personifications have been major elements in forming the narrative images that were based on the figurative formations, within their boundaries that were open to the old as well as the new production of rhetoric.  The image formation in an Arabic simile leads to the creation of an image in the recipient’s mind.  The modern concepts of the simile structure, such as paradox and icons, work on the different figurative formation that is based on paradox within the whole formation of the linguistic narrative construction.

When talking about the narrative icons, it is necessary to identify the work of the women novelists in the field of narration and the crystallization of modern ideology within the internal engineering of the text. Some of them followed the common system in the figurative structure and narrative transformations, whereas others used the investment factor of a modern structure, such as the temporal and spatial shifts that were employed according to their relations to the major or secondary characters.  The internal narrative structure, however, was depicted on the basis of linguistic figurative paradoxes.  Others relied on cultural perceptions based on the paradox between reality and the social and cultural structure.  Other ones, however, took from the homeland and alienation, the natural field for engineering paradox.

The limitation of the study is temporal and it is limited between the years 2003-2020.  The study investigates the period of transformation in the narrative structure within the Iraqi ideological transformation which was subjected to the political regimes.  Since the change of the regime, therefore, the women novels have moved towards global openness of the novel.  As a result, the narrative structure and employment of the mechanisms that constitute it have changed.  Specifically, after 2007, there has been a period of women writing explosion with the emergence of the feminist movement among the Arabs, which has been influenced by social media.  This research paper aims at investigating personification in Iraqi women novels.