Metafiction and the Contemporary Arab Novel: Yousef Al-Mohaimeed’s Laghat Mawta

Abstract

Discusses Al-Mohaimeed's "Laghat Mawta" (The Clamour of the Dead) as an example of metafictional and narcissistic (self-reflexive) narrative, which "seems to be written under the direct inspiration of modern literary theory of narrative advocated by many French thinkers as Ronald Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida and their great impact on Western literature, with the spread of post-structuralism and deconstruction, with the demise of the author and the advent of the reader, and with the plurality of texts and the multiplicity of voices."