The Rhetoric of the Oppressed Women: The Autobiography of the Iraqi Womanhood A Research in the Mechanisms of the Rhetorical Proceeding in " Alagnabia - The Foreigner" by Alia Mamdouh

• Main Author: نهلة بنيان محمد
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: College of Education for Women 2019-01-01
• Series: مجلة كلية التربية للبنات
• Online Access: http://jcoeduw.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/journal/article/view/152

phenomenon in the Arab women's contemporary literature, but it is rare in Iraqi women's literature and falls short to the level of the phenomenon until now. Perhaps this is one of the main reasons that caused the reluctance of researchers to study it, and this is probably the first academic research in this field. This research followed the discourse of Autobiography of women in Iraq, depending on the two factors of charter and reference of the elements of Philippe Lejeune’s definition of the genre of Autobiography, without focusing on narrative method, so it handled notes, memories, diaries and biography of the other and counted all under the genre of the Biography. It came in three sections, the first followed: The tracks of development of the Biography of Iraqi womanhood from its inception, and then it followed the kinetics of development from self-dissolved in community affairs and public to the self that is candidate to biography of others down to the independent self.The second topic addressed: the definition of the term of Rhetoric of the oppressed people by Jabir Usfour, and suggested the term (The Rhetoric of the Oppressed women), explaining the elements that allowed classification of Iraqi women Biographies in its framework. The research also explained the legality of the study of Biography on the basis of the sayings of old Arab rhetoric researcher in advantage of Mohammed Omari in the rhetoric of the Biography. In the third section the research singled the auto biography of the Iraqi writer Alia Mamdouh in her book "The Foreigner" issued in 2013, as one of the most prominent independent model of Biography in a literary form. It also approached the main rhetorical mechanisms followed by the text- focusing on the rhetoric of textual seuiles in the headline, the sub-titles and at the preface – Moreover, it focused on techniques that came on the basis of reading the text and ranking it within the rhetoric of repression, through studying the rhetoric of fear - that was represented in the genre of the discourse and in the setting up of the discourse - and the rhetoric of silence - represented in the implicitating and the delet of Focalisation.