The concept of Focalization in Sahar Khalifeh's Muðakirat Imra'atin ɣeiru Waqeatin: A Narrative Discourse Analysis

In this study, the researcher aims at analyzing the Arabic discourse in the light of feminist novelist, Sahar khalifeh’s novel “Mu ð alkirat Imra’atin ɣeiru Waqeatin” linguistically. The researcher employed the one element of the feminist narrative discourse analysis “focalization” to investigate how the protagonist “Afaf” presents the concept of love in the Palestinian society according to the social and cultural values. Relying on Genettee’s theory of narrative discourse, the researcher deployed the technique of narrative discourse analysis “ Focalization” to investigate how the protagonist, Afaf used her point of view to introduces her painful suffer because of her love and how she was forced to marry another man because love is a crime due to the outdated conventions, Additionally, she depended on the first person pronoun to present her struggles with the clout and influence of the masculine society on her life. Consequently, this study is considered as the first one focusing on analyzing the narrative discourse of the Palestinian Arabic discourse from a linguistic narrative perspective. The result shows that Khalifeh innovatively utilized her feminist narrative discourse to tackle feminist issues in Palestinian society.