Revista de Filologia Romanica
Volume 7, 2011, Pages 321-329

Exile and multiculturality: Perspectives of exile and travel in a story of Raja Alem, a Saudi novelist [Exilio y multiculturalidad: Perspectivas de exilio y viaje en un relato de la autora Saudí Raja Alem] (Article)

Nuin Monreal M.*
  • a Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Abstract

This papper examines concisely the present situation of the arabic novel in Saudi Arabia, in order to focus on the novel by Raja Alem, Sitr (Concealment), that was published in 2005. It was treated from a perspective that mixes travel and interior exile in the spirit of the main character with some images characteristic of globalization in a world without frontiers.

Author Keywords

Interior exile Saudi Arabia globalization Multiculturality Arabic novel Postmodernism Saudi novelist

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Link
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ISSN: 0212999X
ISBN: 9788466934732
Original Language: English; Spanish