Identity Discourse in (Ghurbat Al Raa'i) to Ihssan Abbas

Pro. Essa Odeh Barhouma

Abstract

This study deals with the identity discourse in (Ghurbat Al Raa'i) by the Palestinian scholar Ihsan Abbas, and it attempts to highlight the cultural, societal and personal identity of the personality of the characters, especially the main character, who is Ihsan Abbas, through describing (the identity discourse) in this autobiography, which is normalized with a unique narrative and biographical character. It represents a theme on which the structures of this novelistic biography are gathered, it seemed that identity problems, its manifestations, and its various forms come at the forefront of the topics around whom the narrative paths revolve , or from another perspective they become a discourse that originated in its origin to narrate identity, as in the common expression in narrative theories and discourse analysis.

In order to achieve this goal, the study came in a number of subjects framed by its research paths, in the process of clarifying the characteristics of this identity, towards the problem of identity and narration, and the manifestations of identity discourse in this biography, and other titles, in addition to standing at a number of central motifs that appeared in them .

The study concluded that the identity discourse in (Ghurbat Al Raa'i) represents a unique discourse, full of connotations and indications, which require standing up to read it a close reading that reveals about the manifestations of the self, ego, identity, customs, and traditions.