دراسة تحليلية لرواية "مواكب الأحرار" لنجيب الكيلاني في مقاومة الاستعمار

الملخص EN

This research highlights the efforts to resist colonialism portrayed in Najib al-Kilani's novel ‘Mawakib alAhrar’ (The Caravan of the Freemen).

In the novel, al-Kilani presented a model for the process of colonialism and decolonization, which is represented in the French military campaign against Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte from 1798 to 1801, and the struggle, revolution, and resistance of the Egyptian people against this military campaign and this colonialism.

The research aims to reveal the images and forms of resistance of the Egyptian people against the French army to restore freedom and sovereignty on their land.

The research adopts the content analysis method and uses the ‘Postcolonial Theory" presented by Edward Said and adopts the ‘Tension Model’ proposed by Bill Ashcroft in the analysis.

The importance of the research lies in its interest in the committed Arab literary novel that is concerned with the issues of society and the nation, in addition to its interest in adopting a contemporary oriental literary theory and then departing from dependence on Western literary theories, ideologies and trends that have long dominated literary and critical studies.

The research reached results, the most prominent of which is the merit of considering the novel ‘Mawakib al-Ahrar’ as a ‘Postcolonial Novel’ for its inclusion in the postcolonial discourse and its issues, and images of the resistance and its multiple forms from the Egyptian people against the French colonialist and his aides, after they had gone through and suffered from a tragedy and a harsh and painful experience as a result of the colonial aggression his oppression and persecution.