Sociological criticism of the novel Numidia based on Lucien Goldman's theory of formative structuralism
Subject Areas : Literary criticismVahid Kheiry 1 , Hamid Valizadeh 2 , hasan esmailzadeh 3 , Mahin Hajizadeh 4
1 - Shahid madani
2 - Shahid madani university
3 - shahid madani
4 - Associate Prof., Shahid Madani University, Azerbayjan, Iran.
Keywords: Critique of sociology, developmental structuralism, Lucien Goldman, Tariq Bekari, Numidia.,
Abstract :
Literary sociology criticism criticizes the relationship between literature and society and analyzes the reflection of social changes in the structure of the literary work, and the theory of structuralism is a subset of literary sociology criticism that examines the two-way relationship between literature and sociology in the form of the meaningful structure of the work. Lucien Goldman is one of the most famous theorists of this critical approach, which helps literature researchers with his model to analyze the reflection of the state of society and the worldview of a social class in the structure of the novel. Arabic novels have a meaningful structure due to the extensive changes that have occurred in the Arab world in the last few decades. In the novel "Numidia", the Moroccan writer Tariq Bakari recounts many of the political, social, religious and cultural developments of the last few decades in Morocco with a social and critical approach. The current research tries to show the political and social developments of Morocco represented in the text of this novel, relying on Lucien Goldman's theory of structuralism. The findings of the research indicate that the text of the novel Numidia is a reflection of the social situation of Morocco, the suffocation and tyranny of the ruler, the influence of colonialism, the destructive activities of religious extremists and superstition in the 1970s to the 1990s, in which the worldview of a class of Moroccan leftist and socialist intellectuals is reflected. relying on their class consciousness to achieve freedom,
