Narrative Aesthetics of Contemporary Saudi Female Storytellers: Hakeema Al-Harbi as an Example

Abstract

The study aimed to demonstrate the aesthetics of narration among contemporary Saudi female storytellers - Hakeema Al-Harbi as a model. It used the descriptive analytical approach, and included an introduction, a preface, two chapters, and a conclusion (results of the study):

Preface: Addressing the narrative discourse of Saudi female short stories in light of experimentation

The first chapter: Features of the aesthetics of place and characters in the stories of Hakima Al-Harbi

The second chapter: Features of the aesthetics of creative language in the stories of the short story writer Hakima Al-Harbi.

It reached several results, the most prominent of which are:

The Saudi female short stories presented a distinguished narrative discourse in all the artistic components of the short story, language, rhetoric, artistic plot, and a tight narrative and skillful portrayal of the characters of the story.

The short story writer was keen to show the aesthetics of the place through the accurate sensory description of the place, while showing the precise psychological characteristics that distinguish those who inhabit the place (village - city) .

The short story writer Hakima Al-Harbi employed in her stories the eloquence of expression and the extremely beautiful rhetorical image, the grandeur of the style and the richness of the linguistic vocabulary.

The objective language in Hakima Al-Harbi's stories was characterized by being a pictorial language that aimed to reduce the larger goal to a smaller and more concise goal. The events here were narrated within the language, so they became present at the level of the text.

The short story writer Hakima Al-Harbi resorted to employing poetic language by using intensive rhetorical patterns in a few paragraphs within the narration process.