Components of the travel discourse in the novel Between Baghdad and My Shadow

Abstract

        In this research paper, we aim to study a new style of writing styles shrouded in the contemporary novel, termed (the nomadic novel) through the novel (Between Baghdad and My Shadow) by the expatriate Iraqi writer (Wafa Abdul Zaraq), and this novel is considered one of the nomadic novels where its hybrid narrative type, which derives its artistic and objective themes from the travel literature, as it - the journey - a narrative category that shows us the conditions of the peoples and peoples to which travelers travel and live with them, and convey with him their history and civilization, and show us the civilization and culture of societies On the contrary, the traveler in this narrative work is not only a narrator, but he is a historian, geographer, sociologist and ethnographer at the same time, in addition to the value of the novel, its aesthetics and its subject, as it presents most of its contents and topics in a literary style that rises to the level of artistic fiction, and diversity in its narrative methods, and its narrative elements, as it is rich in its rhetorical and semantic material, and combines between the folds of its texts fun, imagination and interest for the reader at the same time.