النقد التفكيكي في رواية (يوسف) لرسمية محيبس

Abstract

  This research examines the applications of deconstructionist criticism in the novel "Youssef" by novelist Rasmiya Muhaibis, through an integrated theoretical and applied approach. The first section reviews the concept of deconstruction linguistically and terminologically, tracing its philosophical roots in the thought of Jacques Derrida, and outlining its transformation from the realm of philosophy to the field of literary criticism, where it became a tool for dismantling established binaries and revealing internal contradictions within texts. The most prominent characteristics of deconstruction are also presented: the destabilization of meaning, the critique of centrality, the reading of absence, and the multiplicity of interpretations.

  The second section provides an overview of the novel "Youssef" as a narrative text where the personal intersects with the social, and the emotional with the political. The novel is then analyzed according to the mechanisms of deconstruction, through a reading of selected scenes that demonstrate how identity is reproduced and how binaries such as life/death, beauty/blood, writer/exile, and homeland/survival are dismantled. The focus has been on language as a tool for deconstruction, not for fixation, and on absence as a semantic center, not a deficiency.