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

زبان و ادبیات عربی

Article 3, Volume 5, Issue 9, July 2013, Pages 81-98   

Document Type: research article

DOI: 10.22067/jall.v5i9.37330

Authors

Sayyed Mohammad Baqer Hosseini^* ; Razieh Khosravi

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