التشكل الكاذب للهوية و أزمات الانتماء : قراءة في رواية حارس التبغ لعلي بدر

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المستخلص: The game of identities is, in its essence, a game of cultural imaginations and symbolic perceptions.

The identity is an empty individual who deliberately fabricated it by groups that lost their power and glow by dispersing their collective roots, by inventing an artificial group of narratives in order to unite their audiences, and through these intense narratives, they create enough will to recover their lost glory.

We found that the personality of the Jew is “Yusuf Salman” belonged to the time more than her belonging to any circulating identity, as he was not a Jew, so he left Israel shortly after his emigration to it and he was not a Shiite despite his cover-up with the mask of “Haidar Salman” and his marriage to the daughter of the bazaar merchant, “Ismail AlTabatabai,” and he was not Sunni, although Nadia Al-Omari was able to provide him with an internal exile that exceeds the problems of geography and brought him to Baghdad again, and he was not Iraqi either, even though Baghdad was an obsession that he carried in every exile Rather, he sweats strongly to the beautiful time that the child "Youssef Sami" lived, devoid of all the idols of the place.

However, the complex relationship between the character's sense of belonging to the homeland - time - and the abandonment of the homeland - the place for her, made her fall forcing her in a zone of tension in which she could not be herself In fact, in a public way, and she also cannot coexist when she is another one by her own will, so she invents the idea of multiple masks, although she is afraid of concealment and falsification, but there is a greater fear that she makes her play that game with pleasure and mastery, as there is always a hidden object behind the well-known face.

It is a game of fabrication, assumptions, contemplation, knowledge of history, and an excessive imagination that finds its manifestations in the midst of contradictions.