The dialectic of the relationship between the ego and the other and the question of identity in the postcolonial novel

Abstract

Postcolonial studies put forward  a set of cognitive and cultural  theses that revolve in their entirety around the issues of ego, the other, marginalization, identity and cultural difference...Perhaps the geography of travel experienced by many Arab novelists made them adopt post-colonial sayings, to express the experience of migration and its cultural and civilizational repercussions, and the various obstacles faced by their identity and cultural  specificity  in  the  host  Western  society,  which  is  witnessing multiculturalism and the conflict of identities, where their creative works seek to dismantle the colonial discourse and its grand narratives, which It was created on the one hand by colonialism, and on the other hand by the reconstruction of an identity to extract the voice of the self from the hegemony of the Western narrative. In this new cultural context imposed by the transformations taking place in the world, the Arabic novel tries in the post-colonial context to address the worlds of migration and their interconnected realities that reflect the nature of the new reality and its cultural implications on the identity of immigrant minorities. Based on this, our research paper attempts to provide a critical vision of the new post-colonial cultural context, and to stand up to the issues of identity raised by the post-colonial context as a cultural and intellectual project that seeks to understand the way novelists deal with the post-colonial stage, by posing the following problem: How did the experience ofmigration and the issue of identity.