المكوَّن السردي وآليات توليد الدلالة: مقاربة بنيوية لقصة "خالتي موزة" لفاطمة يوسف العلي

This study aims to examine the literature of Fatima Yousuf Al-Ali, particularly through a reading of her story "My Aunt Moza," as one of the early examples of Arab feminist fiction. The research begins by investigating the extent to which the mechanisms of narrative fiction and the features of the author's artistic experience are represented—an experience that possesses distinct semantic and aesthetic dimensions. Its goal is to reveal the narrative and semantic structures of the text and to explain how narrative techniques are employed to express the issues and themes emphasized by the story's narrative discourse. This study adopts a structuralist method and draws on the concepts of narratology developed by Roland Barthes and Gérard Genette, as well as Greimas's actantial model; it also focuses on elements and components such as narrative functions, characters, time, place, the narrator, and textual thresholds. The findings indicate that the story employs a symbolic and dense structure, transforming place and the first-person narrator into two central elements in the production of meaning. The narrative's trajectory reveals a pivotal transformational element, epitomized by the gardener's attempt to uproot a tree, while the titles of both the story and the collection implicitly suggest themes of marginalization. The narrative structure is characterized by chronological sequencing and gradual progression, with the perspective aligning that of the narrator with the protagonist—a technique that brings the story closer to the realm of lyrical literature and allows for the insertion of the narrator's commentaries and reflections. The spatial setting functions as a focal point for all events and plays a central role; the openness and vastness of the place mirror the intellectual maturity and openness of the characters' souls. The prominent use of an interrogative style, interspersed with pauses for internal dialogue and verbs associated with cognition, serves as a key to entering the story's world and signals the role of knowledge in the liberation of souls and the advancement of societies. Furthermore, the story unveils a form of feminist consciousness grounded in the simultaneous union of knowledge and emotion, defending the values of affection and empathy without breaking with or confronting social values. From this perspective, the text can be situated within the framework of pioneering literature committed to the issues of society.