1- Kashan University , raziye.karegar@gmail.com
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The phenomenon of migration is more prevalent than ever. Despite the diversity of motivations, origins, and host countries, this phenomenon exhibits recurring elements that have prompted researchers from various disciplines to examine these commonalities. Given that literature serves as a mirror reflecting social and political phenomena, it is essential to explore these recurring elements within literary works. In recent decades, a branch of literature known as diaspora literature has emerged, providing an academic framework for analyzing the poetry and prose of writers living outside their homeland as a distinct literary genre. The concept of homeland holds significant importance in this literary genre, and diaspora scholars have offered diverse perspectives on this concept. Recently, this concept has expanded beyond the traditional homeland-host society dichotomy, allowing diaspora actors to represent the concept of homeland within Trans locality through the manifestations of the host country, particularly religious manifestations that have a high capacity for accommodating the concept of Trans locality. This paper aims to employ a descriptive-analytical approach to examine the concept of homeland in Ali Al-Qasimi's novel, “Marafi al hob assabaa”. Al-Qasimi (1942), an Iraqi author residing in Morocco, presents a unique and unconventional perspective on the homeland in his novel, which has not been previously explored by researchers. Through the eyes of the protagonist, Salim, the author offers a fresh perspective on the quest for homeland. In the stages of "my homeland" and "the foreign country," Salim compares the various aspects of other countries to his homeland while searching for the concept of homeland, but he is unable to find his lost paradise in exile. When he suffers from a "homesickness" disease in America, he realizes that as a diaspora actor, he must seek to satisfy his desire for belonging and rooting rather than longing for a specific geographical homeland. Consequently, he travels to Morocco, as an Arab-Islamic country, which helps him to satisfy his feelings of longing for his homeland and find the concept of homeland in a different geography. The quest for the concept of homeland in various emotional relationships, the diverse representations of this concept within a woman, and the discovery of an ideal city within her are among the most significant findings of this research.
The phenomenon of migration is more prevalent than ever. Despite the diversity of motivations, origins, and host countries, this phenomenon exhibits recurring elements that have prompted researchers from various disciplines to examine these commonalities. Given that literature serves as a mirror reflecting social and political phenomena, it is essential to explore these recurring elements within literary works. In recent decades, a branch of literature known as diaspora literature has emerged, providing an academic framework for analyzing the poetry and prose of writers living outside their homeland as a distinct literary genre. The concept of homeland holds significant importance in this literary genre, and diaspora scholars have offered diverse perspectives on this concept. Recently, this concept has expanded beyond the traditional homeland-host society dichotomy, allowing diaspora actors to represent the concept of homeland within Trans locality through the manifestations of the host country, particularly religious manifestations that have a high capacity for accommodating the concept of Trans locality. This paper aims to employ a descriptive-analytical approach to examine the concept of homeland in Ali Al-Qasimi's novel, “Marafi al hob assabaa”. Al-Qasimi (1942), an Iraqi author residing in Morocco, presents a unique and unconventional perspective on the homeland in his novel, which has not been previously explored by researchers. Through the eyes of the protagonist, Salim, the author offers a fresh perspective on the quest for homeland. In the stages of "my homeland" and "the foreign country," Salim compares the various aspects of other countries to his homeland while searching for the concept of homeland, but he is unable to find his lost paradise in exile. When he suffers from a "homesickness" disease in America, he realizes that as a diaspora actor, he must seek to satisfy his desire for belonging and rooting rather than longing for a specific geographical homeland. Consequently, he travels to Morocco, as an Arab-Islamic country, which helps him to satisfy his feelings of longing for his homeland and find the concept of homeland in a different geography. The quest for the concept of homeland in various emotional relationships, the diverse representations of this concept within a woman, and the discovery of an ideal city within her are among the most significant findings of this research.
Keywords: diaspora literature, Arabic narratology, Ali Al-Qasimi, “Marafi al hob assabaa, Trans local
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