The other in Saudi Arabian storytelling

Author: Ali Zaala Binding: Cover Volumes: One Paper: Shamooh Size: 17 × 24 Summary: The Saudi novel, which is approaching a century of history, is full of many representations of the other and its images formed in social imagination. It produces diverse patterns of cultural discourse and secretive methods, which this book seeks to approach and attempt to reveal the stance of the Saudi novelistic discourse towards the different or opposing other, and the process and transformations of that stance. Was the Saudi novel neutral and tolerant or exclusionary and racist? Whether with the internal other rooted in the soul of the self (male and female – Bedouin and non-Bedouin – white and black – Najdi and Hejazi – Sunni and Shia – conservative and modern) or the external other (Saudi versus: Arab/non-Arab – Muslim versus non-Muslim).