الزّمن في المنظور السّرديّ لدى الأديبة شيخة حليوى

Abstract

This research examines the concept of time in the writings and literary narratives of the Arab minority in Israel. It clarifies the relationship between time and the frequency of events within a narrative by arranging events in their different tenses – past, present, and future – across the duration of the story. More specifically, this study explores the types of temporal concepts in Sheikhā Ḥilīwā’s literary works, beginning with the notions of internal, subjective time and ego time, before moving to the notion of psychological time. In Arabic literary narratives, psychological time appears through anticipation or flashback carried out by the narrator, through an internal dialogue or monologue, revealing the character’s secrets and hidden thoughts. Moreover, the study sheds light on other notions of time, including linear chronological time and measured real time, and demonstrates their contributions to meaning generation.