The Stream of Consciousness in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s Novel, al-Safinah

Document Type : research article

Authors

Sayyed Mohammad Baqer Hosseini

Razieh Khosravi

https://doi.org/10.22067/jall.v5i9.37330

Abstract

The stream of consciousness deals with the psychological aspects of the characters in a novel. It refers to one’s entire domain of consciousness and his emotional-psychological reaction which begins from pre-speech level and ends in a completely separate logical section. The story of al-Safibah (the ship) by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra is a modern Arab story written in this manner. Using a mixture of omniscient point of view and monologue, the writer reports the ideas and memories of the two main narrators of the story and their reaction to the events in their lives. The present paper seeks to analyze the story and compare the different dimensions and features of the stream of consciousness in this novel.

Keywords

Novel

stream of consciousness

Jabra

al-Safinah

internal monologue

point of view

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