Anxiety of Writing and Characters’ rebellion in Saudi Novel. ‏ The Metafiction in Narrative Structures.

Abstract

 This study investigates the competence of metafiction and its manifestations in the texts of Saudi novels through monitoring two phenomena: anxiety of writing and characters’ rebellion as two prominent figures in the structure of postmodernism metafiction. Although lots of Saudi novels’ texts have been publish by metafiction style, they were not, according to my knowledge, scientifically studied in separate ways. So, I made my decision to track them, uncover their features and approaches, clarify their dark sides and show their goals depending upon the subjective method in order to approximate the studied texts and monitor their dominant themes statistically and interpretively. Study’s sample concluded four Saudi novels that were chosen carefully depending on their diversity that serves the purposes of research and depending on their comprehensiveness that leads to finding the answers to several questions most importantly are: How the metafiction was figured in Saudi novels’ texts? Were they functioned in narrative structures randomly and freely or were full with concerns, visions and semantics? Were they formed upon postmodernism awareness made by Saudi novelists? Upon these factors, the study was built upon an introduction, two sections and a conclusion. The introduction has presented a short brief of the competence of metafiction in their foreign and Arabic roots in addition to providing its definition, styles and visionary and formative bets. The first section handled the anxiety of writing in addition to composition’s worries and mechanisms. The second chapter handled characters’ rebellion and their opposition to their fates. The study ended with a conclusion that monitored the most prominent results and recommendations of the study.