The Duality of Death and Freedom in The Search: Personal Papers by Latifa Al-Zayyat: A Structural Study

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The Duality of Death and Freedom in The Search: Personal Papers by Latifa Al-Zayyat: A Structural Study
Thanaa Mohamed Kelany Mohamed Abdullah
Arabic Language Department, Faculty of Languages, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
E-mail: aolady2@yahoo.com
Abstract:
The present study seeks to investigate: the duality of death and freedom in the autobiography of Latifa Al-Zayyat: The Search: Personal Papers: A structural study. It aims at proving the spread of those two topics throughout the whole autobiography of the writer, Latifa Al-Zayyat. It examines the main pillars of her autobiography and their psychological effects reflected on the artistic aspects of her autobiography. The creativity of the writer – in general – in one of its aspects is considered an evidence of his/her existence and essence when he/she writes their visions or the visions of others. Writers’ creativity is also an evidence of their awareness of the world around them. If this is the case when they write about the others; then, it is more interesting and exciting when they write their own autobiographies. This highlights a previously existed pact between the writer and the recipient. The study adopts the structural and the psychological approaches; because the autobiography is closely connected to its writer and the effect of the psychological aspect in the structure of the autobiography cannot be ignored. The study concludes that this text is a clear applied model showing that the autobiography is closely connected to the deep human soul. The autobiography expresses interactions between the human soul and the events occurring throughout her life. Therefore, the psychological aspect has a clear impact on its structure.The study reveals that the autobiography is a rich field – quantitatively and qualitatively- for researchers to explore its uniqueness.  As every autobiography is closely connected to its writer and this leads to a variety of styles, ways of presentation, angles of interests and events and points stressed by the writer to be uncovered to the recipient. This paves the way to study autobiographies from the structural, psychological and cultural aspects. This would enrich the critical studies.
Keywords: autobiography , The Search , Latifa Al-Zayyat , death , freedom.
 

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  • Receive Date: 06 January 2022
  • Revise Date: 12 February 2022
  • Accept Date: 12 March 2022

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