تجليات المكان في رواية هوارية لإنعام بيوض

Abstract

Place is considered one of the most prominent narrative structures that modern critics and scholars have thoroughly examined, due to its capacity to transform rigid narrative frameworks into a dynamic semantic structure that contributes to meaning-making and the shaping of narrative vision. In the modern novel, place has broken free from its mere geography and architecture to become a space rich with psychological, social, political, and cultural connotations and symbols. This transformation deepens the structure of the text and intensifies its aesthetic tensions. In Houaria by An’am Bayyoudh, the author infuses symbolic and semantic dimensions into various types of spaces, allowing readers to delve into the inner tensions experienced by the characters, the conflicts that drive the plot, and the unfolding of character identities and their psychological and social transformations.