Transcendentalists Climbs on the Shoulders of Reality: The Numeration and alteration of Languages in the Novel of Sahar Khalifah
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Abstract
Sahar Khalifah’s novel has a number of linguistic layers. The standard literary Arabic, the dominant layer, guards against any deviation from the norm, when ever the other layers tilt towards the aesthetic, poetic language or towards the colloquial language. Although both the standard as well as the colloquial languages intend to help create better communication and represent reality, this representation retreats when the writer uses poetic language.
Besides the aesthetic function, Khalifah uses poetic language in attempt to escape the difficult and never-ending events in her story. More than any other literary medium, poetic language is used as an escape from the atrocities of occupation, the harsh political reality and from a male-dominated society in which women are cruelly stepped on.