إشكالية المقولات والحكاية في رواية "اسمي سلمى"

الملخص EN

Fadia Faqir’s novel “my name is Salma” presents, on the surface, a tale of two dimensions.

The first tackles honor crime and patriarchy in Arab societies, and the second explores the pain and misery in immigrants’ society in the West.

However, on a deeper structure, the novel employs stereotypes on Arab societies, which essentialize them as societies of absolute oppression and tyranny.

The novel also offers stereotypes regarding confrontations between immigrants and Europeans in the West.

Western societies in the novel seem to be inhabited by aggressive people, not differentiating between educated, religious and/or working classes.

Therefore, this research analyzes the manifestations of the above mentioned stereotypes in the novel and the effect of such stereotypes on the structure of the novel.