A Comparative study of The reflection of continental and rural traits in Novels "Scorched Earth" by Ahmad Mahmoud and " Malekat Al-Enab " by Najib Al-Kilani

Subject Areas : شعر

Hayedeh Azimoghli Oskooi ¹ , Hojjat Rasouli ² , Seyyed Ebrahim Arman ³

1 - Tehran Education DepartmentPhD student, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature Department, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2022-09-02 Accepted : 2022-09-28 Published : 2024-01-21

Keywords: Continental literature, Scorched Earth, Najib Al-Kilani Malekat Al-Enab (Grape Queen), Ahmad Mahmoud,

Abstract :

Continental literature is one of the important sub-branches of fiction has influenced the social and political developments of most societies. Najib Al-Kilani and Ahmad Mahmoud, two great contemporary Persian and Arabic writers including committed writers based on indigenous culture, addressed the problems of society and their minds for solutions in the form of their stories. The story " Malekat Al-Enab" (Grape Queen) is one of the noble works of Kilani about a village with hope and suffering along with the contemporary historical developments of Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. The story of "Scorched Earth" by Ahmad Mahmoud is also depicted as a socio-historical plan of the events of the war and the reflection of the southern climate and the suffering of the people by mastering the scenes in a realistic style in the eyes of the critic. The importance of studying this issue becomes clear when many economic and social problems were solved in the development of Islamic societies. The present study has investigated and evaluated the characteristics of influential climatic and indigenous elements in the two novels with a comparative approach. The results of this study: Achieving effective climatic and indigenous elements in the mentioned novels is necessary for the goals of sustainable development.