صورة الوطن ورمزية الأماكن في رواية" نوبة الغريبة" لمحمد الأمين بن ربيع

Abstract

This research topic examines the reality of society across its various historical stages, each characterized by its own distinct features that have left their mark on the narrative text—images often dominated by hope, alongside the oppression and assassination of the people, particularly during the Black Decade. Killing became a daily language, and fear became the identity of the place, extending into the post-political crisis period, during which the nation gathers its wounds amidst the emergence of several constitutional amendments and reorganizations aimed at ending this conflict and restoring freedom once more. Amidst this ruin, the novelist Mohamed El-Amine Ben Rabie, in his novel Nawbat al-Ghariba (The Strange Episode), embodies the image of the nation as a narrative document that records the horror of all forms of violence and the betrayal that shattered human souls. He brings together a positive image of the nation as a space of belonging and a negative image that makes it a source of suffering and alienation, employing place to deepen these connotations—open spaces signify freedom, while enclosed spaces reflect constraint and the psychological pressure that dissects the characters' states and the nation's fluctuations.