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Seydnavaz Z, Abdolahzadeh F, Arab Yusefabadi A. Discursive Contests and Historical Truth: A New Historicist Reading of Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman's Shadows on the Window. san 2026; 1 (1) :137-158
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1- M.A. Graduate,Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
2- Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran ,foadabdolahzadeh@uoz.ac.ir
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
2- Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran ,
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
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This study employs a New Historicist framework to analyze Gha’ib Tu’ma Farman’s novel Shadows on the Window (Ẓilāl ʿalā al-Nāfidha). Drawing on the poststructuralist insights of Nietzsche and Foucault, New Historicism treats literary texts as active agents in the construction of historical and social discourses, rather than as passive reflections of a fixed reality. Through a descriptive-analytical method, this research examines how Farman’s realist narrative engages with the dominant socio-political discourses of 1960s Iraq. The analysis identifies the novel’s foregrounding of critical discourses surrounding gender, poverty, unemployment, state power, and Marxism. It demonstrates how these discourses are mobilized to address systemic challenges such as inequality, class struggle, and the severe restrictions imposed on women’s autonomy in marriage, education, and public life. Primarily anchored in a Marxist critique, the novel not only depicts the complexities of Iraqi society but also recuperates marginalized historical narratives, particularly those concerning women’s conditions, thereby contesting official and dominant historical accounts. This reading ultimately reveals Shadows on the Window as a dynamic participant in its historical moment—one that does not merely document but actively interrogates and redefines the discursive contours of its time.
Keywords: Arabic Narratology, New Historicism, Historical Truth, Silenced Voices, Power Relations, Shadows on the Window, Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman
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