THE MANIFESTATION OF IDENTITY AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE OTHER, THE WEST, IN THE NOVEL “GIANTS OF THE NORTH” BY NAJIB AL-KILANI

Abstract

The novel Giants of the North, by its Egyptian author Najib Al-Kilani, is considered one of the Islamic novels. This novel has received clear attention from readers and occupied a space in the studies of critics and scholars. This study monitors “the dialectics of the self and the other in the novel “Giants of the North” by Dr. Najeeb Al-Kilani, by identifying a set of visions that dominated the narrative and the fictional text. By relying on a historical methodology concerned with identifying images of the known historical stages in the novel. Najeeb Al-Kilani relied on An applied analytical artistic methodology that highlights the fundamental issues, thematic themes, and prominent semantic phenomena in the novel.