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 of migration and the issue of identity.