A Critical Reading Between Textuality and Symbolism in The Novel “ Bed Hopper” by Ahlam Mosteghanemi A Formative Structural Approach

Abstract

This critical study seeks to present a formative, structural approach to the novel Bed Hopper by the Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi, exploring the dialectic of the relationship between textuality, with its poetic language and shifts, and the symbolism spread within the folds of the novel, to explore the lines of existing awareness and possible awareness. The study takes the formative structural approach as a tool for dialogue with the novelistic text, and this is by opening up to the sociological structures and deconstructing the worldview that regulates work as an expression of a collective consciousness that goes beyond the creative self. Individualism to the group context.

The research was divided into two parts, the first theoretical, in which the conceptual and contextual frameworks and the autobiography of the creative self were defined, and the second applied, which monitored the manifestations of Algerian reality between the periods of the Algerian Revolution and the nineties of the last century. The study concluded with a number of results, the most important of which is that the novel succeeded symbolically in exposing the conflict between the self-residing in the homeland and the alienated other, and in consecrating the existing awareness of male masculinity and the dominance of the body. In contrast, the approach revealed the construction of a possible dangerous awareness at the textual level, which penetrated the audience of recipients, and was represented in the destruction of values ​​and institutional bonds that build society, such as the marital institution, the family, the religious institution, under the pretext of fighting social hypocrisy, targeting the collective emotion through a wonderful poetic language, which contributed to social transformations and alienations.