Marginalized Reference Criticism in the contemporary Arab novel A reading of the book "The Arabic Novel: The Imaginary and Its Artistic Structure" by Youmna Al-Eid.

Abstract

This research attempts to illuminate an aspect of the critical experience of the critic Youmna Al-Eid, by providing a descriptive reading in her book entitled "The Arabic Novel: The Imaginary and Its Artistic Structure". In order to raise one of the literary issues addressed in this book which is the issue of the is the issue of marginalized people covered in the Arabic novel, In search of an objective critical vision and subjective attitude. The Arab novel, and what the critic adopted, shed the sword of her criticism on the prevailing marginal culture in Arab societies, and explained the behavior of marginalization imposed on vulnerable groups, especially females, With historical, ideological, social and cultural factors, She indicated, implicitly, that the way out of the impasse of marginalization is to spread awareness, to accept the different and embrace the marginalized.