The Manifestations of Color in Forming the Space in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Black Suits You: A Critical Study
Muntaha T. Alharahsheh, Dept. of Arabic Lang. & Literature, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan (Currently: A Visiting scholar, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman).
Abstract
This study aims to crically discuss the language of color in forming the space of Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Black Suits You using Structuralism, and Psychoanalysis in order to reveal the components of this fictional text and to semiotically analyze the novel’s title. This article reveals the language of color, shows the semiotic and intellectual dimention in the novel, demonstrates some features of the contemporary feminist novel, and analyzes the textual space of the novel, the narrative skills, the narrative structure, and the aesthetic vision of the novel.
This study has concluded that the author shaped her novel using the language of color and pairing between her romantic taste and tragic mourning. She uses the language of color in a way that she depicts the ramifications of stress and conflicting values and reconciliations in mad love relations as represented in terrorism and bleeding situations. Moreover, this study has come to a conclusion that Mosteghanemi depicts a bright image of love, singing, and music to confront and challenge patriarchal violence and terrorism. Finally, she contributes to raising aesthetic and intellectual consciousness so a reader can develop his tools in order to understand the text and its implications as the language of blackness functions as its main reference.
Key words: Modern literature, Criticism, novel, narration, Ahlam Mosteghanemi.