Title: The Hierarchy 0f Secrets In The Female Novel: Dissecting The Narrative Between Disclosure And Secrecy
Authors: Saad A . Al - Saadi , Iraq
Volume: 9
Issue: 5
Pages: 133-135
Publication Date: 2025/05/28
Abstract:
The feminist novel uses secrets as a narrative tool to resist Male Domination, where secrecy and disclosure expose oppressive regimes through techniques such as metaphor and an unreliable narrator, as in the works of Nawal al-Saadawi and Hanan al-Sheikh. The reader is faced with the challenge of interpreting these symbolic layers between superficial reading and deep interpretation. While some critics see the secrets as fostering a culture of silence, others defend their liberating role in repressive societies. In essence, the secrets in feminist writing represent resistance and rebellion, in which literature becomes a means of survival and reshaping of social consciousness. Secrets in the feminist novel form a complex tapestry of silence and speech, with which the reader interacts as an explorer of muffled depths, surfacing as much as diving into the vestibules of memory and identity.þ The secrets here are not just a dramatic plot, but a narrative strategy employed to create a hidden dialogue with social reality, dismantling the masculine traditions that have settled in it. What does the author want from this hierarchy of secrets, and what does she announce and hide in the narrative spaces, and how does the reader receive this double language, and what criticism is directed at it? This research reveals some aspects of it.þ