Manifestations of loss in the Omani novel “Dilshad” by Bushra Khalfan as a model

Ashtab, Faisal; Khezri, Ali; Balavi, Rasoul; Pourabed, Mohammad Javad

doi:10.22059/jal-lq.2024.365698.1362

Manifestations of loss in the Omani novel “Dilshad” by Bushra Khalfan as a model

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Faisal Ashtab ¹

Ali Khezri ¹

Rasoul Balavi ²

Mohammad Javad Pourabed ¹

¹ Department of Arabic language and literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran

² Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

10.22059/jal-lq.2024.365698.1362

Abstract

Loss is the legitimate offspring of the identity crisis that the individual suffers in his society, as a result of the prevailing social conditions. Therefore, we see this phenomenon strongly entering the social literature to become an integral part of it. The novel, by its nature, will not abandon the behaviors of its society; For this reason, you see it reflects most of the facts and events that occur among its members, with an insightful literary and social view. Losing is one of the literary elements that the novelist Bushra Khalfan touched upon in her novel "Dilshad". This novel is one of the most important contemporary novels that shed light on and dealt with the social diseases that are rampant in the same society. As the novel, with its strange title, embodied the power of famine and poverty, alienation and crisis in identifying identity, women and the pressures exerted against them such as contempt, violence and masculine power, which led to the fusion of the concept of "ego" in the midst of these accumulated events, which cast shadows of backwardness and exclusion in society.

This research is according to the descriptive-analytical approach, by exploring the depths of the accumulated events with a sociological view in the mosaic of Omani society.

Keywords

Omani novel

Bushra Khalfan

Dilshad novel

Lost

Alienation