The Biographical Narrative in “The Mirage Female” by Wassini Laaraj
Razan Mahmoud Ibrahim, Department of Arabic, University of Petra, Amman, Jordan.
Abstract
The present study deals with The Mirage Female by Wassini Laaraj, focusing on three interconnected features: the factual and the imaginary, the openness of the narrative text, and life and death. The three collaborate and fall within a basic structural frame, namely the biographical narrative. In more than one of its parts, the study pinpoints the continuous attachments/relations between art and life invoked in the novel at hand and tackled in the above-mentioned features. While the study groups The Mirage Female under biographical narratives in view of some well acknowledged methodological considerations, it also substantiates, in more than one place, that what is based on reality can become part of a whole artistic texture, and, hence, is necessarily governed by the rules and requirements of that texture. The above is entailed by the narrator’s choice to re-narrate reality through an artistic narrative text.