Counter-Ideological Consciousness and Its Representations: A Study of Basim Khandaqji's Novel "A Mask the Color of the Sky"

Abstract

This research paper endeavors to examine the (ideological) identity conflict in Basim Khandaqji's novel, "A Mask the Color of the Sky," specifically by highlighting the diverse manifestations of counter-ideological action within the novel's narrative system; it further seeks to unveil the varied aesthetic techniques employed by the author to expose the latent civilizational and historical postulations promoted by the Zionist Other through its numerous discourses, both past and present.

To answer these questions, we chose to adopt a descriptive analytical approach, where the study concludes that ideology remains a significant director of literary creativity, in both poetry and prose, and a constitutive element of its content, which renders the relationship between them dialectical, fundamentally based on a process of mutual influence and affect.