Jerusalem Novel in Arabic literature in the Twenty - First Century

This study addresses the Jerusalem novel in the Twenty – First century from all of its aspects. For this purpose, the researcher chose fourteen novels for Palestinian and Arab writers, eleven of which are for writers living in Palestine, one for a Palestinian writer who lives in Syria, and the last two novels are for two Arab writers who have not visited nor lived in the city. The study came in four chapters, an introduction, a preface and a conclusion. The researcher gives a quick presentation of the importance of the space "Place" in the novel. He also compares between the effective presence of Jerusalem in the novel after the 1967 Setback (Naksa), and its poor presence before that date. The researcher also addresses the most significant pervious studies, the research methodology, its contents, as well as the reason behind choosing this particular subject. Following that, he presents the different criticism of the concepts of "Space and Place" in the novel, and presents the main results that Abdullah Al-Khabbas has come up with in his study on the image of Jerusalem in the past century. The first chapter comes under the title "Parallel Text in the Jerusalem Novel" in which the researcher seeks to explain how much care the authors of the Jerusalem Novel have given to the particularities of their various texts. The researcher addresses the novels of writers from inside and outside the country according to the cinematic methodology. First, he talked about the meta-texts in an attempt to investigate the connection between the authors and the city, as well as their relationship with the novel's time in order to unveil the world's of the writers and their writing about Jerusalem. The researcher then tracks the presence of Jerusalem in these novels with respect to their effective texts, especially their main, subsidiary and internal titles, as well as their credits, prefaces, beginnings and ends, and connects all that to the body of the novel. The second chapter on the other hand came under the title "The Image of Jerusalem in the Novel" in which the researcher tracks the features of Jerusalem's image among the novelists of the inside and outside. He feels the intimacy of its novelistic image among the writers residing in the city, while feeling its poor presence as an effective place among the writers who have not lived in the city and have not known its reality with all of its different details. In the third chapter, the researcher discusses the "Arab-Israeli Relationships in the Jerusalem Novel" in which he investigates the features of the Jews' image as it appears in the novels of the inside and outside writers from the perspective of the Palestinian and Arab writers themselves. The study tracks any updates in the relationship between the Palestinians and the Jews, and the researcher presents a number of indications that reveal how the Arab individual perceives himself. The researcher addresses, in his fourth chapter titled "Storytelling Methods in the Jerusalem Novel", the Jerusalem Novel with respect to its artistic form, the methods of storytelling involved and its language. In the conclusion, the researcher presents the main results that the study has come up with, the characteristics of the Jerusalem Novel in the Twenty – First Century, as well as the weaknesses and deficits it had.