Masculine Initiation in Mai Muzaffar’s Stories
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.15.55.4.8Keywords:
Mai Muzaffar, Masculinity, Addressee, Male Initiation, StoriesAbstract
The beginning represents the first nucleus that contributes to furnishing the text, as its narrative elements branch out through fragmented relationships through the interrelation of the subsequent
text with a previous text, united by the focus of the narrative body, in addition to the theme of the story that is woven according to the author’s vision to attract the reader and grab his attention, especially the beginning as a narrative technique. The storyteller, Mai Muzaffar, tried to collect her narrative material and weave it into various beginnings that open to the other, to announce herself in the setting of events, and to turn into a visible theme in her stories.
The research was divided into an introduction, four sections, and a conclusion. The introduction included three axes in which the search terms were defined. The first topic dealt with: (initiating with
male nouns) and the second topic was labeled: with (initiating with the first-person pronoun “I”), while the third topic dealt with: (initiating with the pronoun “I”). The addressee is “you.” The fourth section deals with: (beginning with the dual pronoun “we”). The conclusion included the most important findings of the research.
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