Document Type : research article
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1 PhD student at Shahid Beheshti University
2 Member of the Study Committee, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University
3 Assistant Professor of the Arabic Language and Literature Department of Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract
Cultural criticism is one of the most important stages of critical maturity. Cultural criticism has been given direct attention to the issues and challenges that a person has faced in the struggle of changes and transformations in the contemporary world. The theory of cultural patterns, which seeks the connection between the hidden and rooted cultural patterns in human culture and literature, is one of the most important fields of cultural criticism it found its place in Arabic culture by Abdullah Al-Ghadami. Cities of Salt, a quintet by Abdul Rahman Munif is one of the most important Arab novels; its main focus is on the encounter between the West and the Arabs. This quintet has brought up important cultural and social issues, which cannot be analyzed in detail except through the lens of cultural criticism. This study was conducted to examine the challenging cultural patterns of the West in the face of Arab implicit cultural patterns, as well as the position of Arab characters and their patterns in the face of other cultural manifestations. The descriptive-analytical method was used based on the analysis of cultural criticism of the cultural systems theory, according to Abdullah Al-Ghadami’s opinions. The importance of studying Cities of Salt is from the perspective of the cultural pattern in the dual vision between Arab and Western, as well as dealing with cultural patterns and their determining role in the coexistence between the two cultures. The purpose of this study is to uncover the challenging dimension related to the cultural patterns of the two cultures and also the prevailing view of Arabic and Western descent to each other in the quintet Cities of Salt.
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