مقاربات درامية في الهوية والعادات: دراسة وصفية وتحليلية لرواية "لعنة الليمون" للروائي بخيت ضحية

(Dramatical Approaches in Identity and Customs: A Descriptive Analytical Study of the Novel: “La'nat al-Laymun” by the Novelist Bakhit Dahya)

Abstract

Abstract          

Laʿnat al-Laimūn (The Curse of the lemon) is a novel in which there are many events and developing personalities in conflict and complexity. The writer has competently managed to give us the picture for his characters in an astonishing manner, interwoven aesthetically with the plot to end up with the ending that he wished. The novel shows the importance of deploying creative heritage and societal customs mixed with the direct religious heritage, to support and strengthen its ideas in the novel. This analytical research is based on an objective analytical descriptive methodology based on determining the type of style predominant in the literary text. This is for the purpose of studying its complexity, simplicity, clarity, and use. In it, the writer relied on diving into the mysteries of the ambiguities of his village society which is exposed to the environmental diversity, familiar with the customs and traditions of his society which is imbued with its values ​​and culture. There is no way to do that except for those who lived in that environment. The writer talks about the story of bringing lemon fruit to the quiet village which was later viewed a curse in the writer’s prophecy. It is narrated and visualized by the novel. The research seeks to study the events of the story and analyse the artistic image using the dramatic approaches to discover the identity and customs of those people. This is in addition to other aspects such as focusing on the writer’s style, language, its strength in expressing the events, as well as studying the emotion that is behind the motivation of the writer to produce this literary text.  It would also indicate the effectiveness of the dialogues in the novel, and the extent that the plot was constructed in a correct manner.

Key words: approaches, drama, novel, curse of lemon, identity, habits.