Critical Discourse on The Novel (Black Music) By Najman Yassin - A Study in Criticism of Criticism
Keywords:
Black Music, Najman Yassin, Critical Discourse, Critical Article, Novel, Literary Space, Narrative SpaceAbstract
The research initially enters the circle of criticism of criticism when it deals with a group of critical studies on the novel “Black Music” by Najman Yassin, which is an autobiographical novel in which the self-narrator recounts his experience with the American occupation of Iraq, where he spent a period of time detained in the prisons of this occupation. The novel depicts the process of detention and the cruel, inhuman torture of the character (the narrator, the hero, the main character). The novel was subjected to a group of readings, approaches, and articles that he collected in a book that he prepared and presented entitled “Anthem in Hell,” which was collected and presented by “Dr. Muhammad Najman Yassin.”
Our research dealt with these readings, approaches, and articles with criticism and methodological treatment in light of the general and specific narrative paths of the novel. We tried to place what belongs to the category of the celebratory critical article, which is the most common, in a special part of the research, and to place only two studies in another part dedicated to critical discourse, due to the importance of such books that require a critical review of the critical opinions they contain within specific methodological and critical controls. We tried to subject each article or reading to a careful examination of what it presented and what it reached in terms of results on the level of the concept of novel criticism.
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