Abstract
Abstract
Hassan Najmi´s novel Gīrtrūd represents an example of the postmodern novel with its transtextual characters expressed fictionally. Hassan Najmi transforms the one-dimensional flat character, Mohammed, in Gertrude Stein´s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas into a three-dimensional dynamic character. In Gīrtrūd, the narrator Hassan becomes Mohammed´s voice – the very incarnation of Mohammed. They become each other´s double, fiction, reality, and mask of alterity. Through a kind of narrative game, the narrative voice – local form – reads, interprets and overwrites Western material/texts. As a postmodern novel, Hassan Najmi´s Gīrtrūd, narrates the story of Moroccan fiction in its complex relation to Western literature.
Keywords: novel, fiction, postmodernity, narrative game, bilingual identity
Hassan Najmi´s novel Gīrtrūd represents an example of the postmodern novel with its transtextual characters expressed fictionally. Hassan Najmi transforms the one-dimensional flat character, Mohammed, in Gertrude Stein´s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas into a three-dimensional dynamic character. In Gīrtrūd, the narrator Hassan becomes Mohammed´s voice – the very incarnation of Mohammed. They become each other´s double, fiction, reality, and mask of alterity. Through a kind of narrative game, the narrative voice – local form – reads, interprets and overwrites Western material/texts. As a postmodern novel, Hassan Najmi´s Gīrtrūd, narrates the story of Moroccan fiction in its complex relation to Western literature.
Keywords: novel, fiction, postmodernity, narrative game, bilingual identity
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New Geographies : Texts and Contexts in Modern Arabic Literature |
| Editors | Roger Allen, Gonzalo Fernandez, Francisco M. Rodriguez Sierra, Tetz Rooke |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Place of Publication | Madrid |
| Publisher | Madrid: Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Publication date | 2018 |
| Pages | 217-236 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-84-8344-620-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |