توظيف التراث في أعمال إبراهيم الكوني الروائية

Abstract EN

Al Kawni is considered an icon in the contemporary Arabic Fiction.

He is one of the novelists who allocated a great part of his novel experiment towards the issue of heritage, particularly local heritage.

His literary project depends mainly on a vision that relies on examining the desert folk heritage as manifested in Al Tawareq tribes to which the author belongs by affinity and culture.

The purpose of this study is to trace the aspects and forms Al Kawni's benefit from local heritage and to reveal the image in which such heritage was represented and its dependence on an integrated heritage system, which included customs, traditions, religious beliefs, folk literature, myth and popular arts and everything related to the themes of the African desert inhabited by Al Tawareq tribes.

The study shows that the objectives or motives that stirred up Al Kawni to ask for inspiration and employ the heritage elements in his literature are based on the desire of the author to defend this local heritage, which is about to disappear and to revive this heritage and put it at the disposal of the reader from outside the self-enclosed desert world.

The study highlights the Al Kawni's ability, through his literary works concerned with the world of the desert, to successfully portray everything related to the heritage of this world and to analyze the essence of relations that arise between the elements of the place, including man, animal and nature and to show how man in the desert can not maintain his links with thingsexcept through a solid mass of cultural and heritage factors like myth, symbols, omens, signals, beliefs, and traditions pertaining to the world of desert.

The study indicated that these literary works, which Al Kawni presented to the reader, had unveiled such ethnic group of people in its relation with the place and with each others as well as with others.

In short, Al Kawni had presented something similar to an integrated anthropology about Al Tawarek in addition to his exhibition of a Tawarek mythology through a strange mix that was presented by the artistic narration, the methods of which were successfully diversified by the writer.

It is perhaps that this study was able to explain some of the intellectual vision that extends as a thread in many of his novels.

The writer always appeared to be cling to the attempt to answer the question of the human nature and understand the relation between good and evil and that Famine, draught and scarcity of nature, which are elements inherent in human in the desert as well as the struggle between human and his race and between human and nature, are only conditions that are set to uncover the human nature and elucidation of its behavior and conduct and its view of life and nature.