Identity Criticism from the Perspective of the Cultural Construct in Criticism Books of the Arabic Novel

Abstract

This research is directed to critique the critical books that took the identity as a path to read the narrative texts from the perspective of the cultural structure and what it includes from the main components in the cultural foundation. The critics effectively meant one or more cultural components in the novelistic texts, standing at the rhetorical context and interacting with it , or declaring the implications of the cultural components and reading them according to the reading work and the critic’s methodological tools , basing our reading on the strategy of deconstructing the critical discourse.

We divided the research into a summary and an introduction to define the relationship of identity with culture and the extent of their overlap, then to stand at the most important cultural components contained in the critical contexts of identity criticism in the Arabic novel, starting with religion, body, language, music and some of the other cultural components, and we concluded the research with the most important The results, notes and margins are proven by the critical sources under study and some sources in the field of culture and criticism.