Sulaiman bin Salem Alsenani

The Narrative of Belonging: A Metafictional Approach to Young Adult Literature (Arwa Dawood Khamees’s Duology as a Model)

This study examines how inherited values in classical tales, which have entrenched stereotypes in young readers’ consciousness, are critically interrogated. It traces the metanarrative mechanisms operating in the text and analyzes their role in dismantling and reconstructing such images. The corpus consists of Arwa Daw...