International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 11(2), pp. 27-43, June 2023

 ISSN: 2360-7831

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijelc2023025

 

Review

 

Abstract

 

The world of colors is one of the closest to the world of the woman writer, and we have begun to see her introduce literary paintings that accommodate the size of her suffering from private and public issues. She became associated with the symbolism of color psychologically, due to the feelings that affect her. Consequently, the colorful lines started revealing this tenderness of this or that author, and the aesthetic of her handling of color and its indications and connotations, especially the white, the black, and the yellow as we will mention in the study novel here. Color is one of the most important and beautiful phenomena of nature, and one of the most important elements that shape the artistic image, because of its artistic, psychological, social, and symbolic indications, as each color has a psychological meaning that is formed as a result of its physiological impact on the human being. Moreover, a single color in a literary text can produce several purposes. Therefore, in our view, color should be studied in Arab women's literature by linking it to the context of literary text. It is the literary context that determines its function and effectiveness. Color is an aesthetic feature of literature and is an important element of artistic construction, due to its connotations that are directly related to the artistic vision. Most often the color does not appear in what has been described but rather reveals the woman writer's feelings as it is vibrant, energetic, comfortable, and reassuring, and a symbol of different feelings of sadness and pleasure. This study examines the colors and their indications and connotations in the novel Ḏakerat al-Jasad/Memory of the Body by the Algerian woman writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi stylistically and semantically.

 

Keywords: Dakerat al-Jasad, symbolic indication, temporal universal indication, artistic indication, social psychological indication, physiological, psychological influence.  

 

Cite This Article As: Bishara, H.(2023). Color Talk in the Text of Feminist Talks: Indications and Combustions-Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Novel Ḏakerat al-Jasad as a Sample. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 11(2): 27-43