نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد، گروه زبان و ادبیات عربی، دانشگاه خوارزمی، تهران، ایران
2 دانشیار گروه زبان و ادبیات عربی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه خوارزمی، تهران، ایران.
3 کارشناسی ارشد گروه زبان و ادبیات عربی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه خوارزمی، تهران، ایران.
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The American Granddaughter (Al-Hafida al-Amrikiyya) by Inaam Kachachi narrates the story of Zeina, an Iraqi-American woman who, upon returning to occupied Iraq, confronts a crisis of identity and belonging. The central question is how migration, war, and cultural duality have influenced the formation of her personality and left her bewildered across the stages of psychosocial development. Analyzing Zeina's character through Erik Erikson's theory contributes to a deeper understanding of the hidden layers of characterization and the implicit messages of the work, and clarifies the link between fiction and developmental psychology. This study employs a descriptive-analytical method based on Erikson's eight psychosocial stages and the crises associated with each stage. The findings indicate that Zeina has not successfully passed through any of Erikson's developmental stages. Forced migration at the threshold of adolescence occurred precisely at the most critical stage of identity formation, leaving her wandering between two cultures and two contradictory roles. This identity confusion led to a crisis of intimacy versus emotional isolation, and then brought Zeina prematurely to the crisis of integrity versus despair. She fails to attain the virtues of commitment, love, and wisdom, and becomes trapped in a closed cycle of interconnected crises. It was also found that by omitting the first five stages of development, the author deliberately focused the narrative on the crises of identity, intimacy, and integrity in order to purposefully emphasize the consequences of the identity and social crises of contemporary Arab society.
کلیدواژه‌ها [English]
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