Narrating the Marginalized Space in African Arabic Novels Space and Representations of Blackness

Abstract

This research focuses on narrating the marginalized in African Arabic literature as a central issue, shedding light on a dark and bleak aspect of human life. "Blackness" is a profound concept closely linked to the marginalized and represents the "taboo" that overshadowed the culture of the white man. As a thematic variable, it is closely connected to the transformations in narrative genres known in the West, after the winds of change reached the Arab world in the form of two main modern narrative genres: the novel and the short story, which served to express new life. Modernist and postmodernist narratives conveyed the idea of the margin, but from different perspectives. This connection between narrative and problematic, unsettling, and marginalized themes is dictated by the nature of openness to life, thought, knowledge, arts, culture, and other genres. Narrative, being flexible or mercurial, has boundaries that expand to encompass all of life.