Huda Al-Matrafi

Against the backdrop of an extended history of Arab women’s silence in general, and Saudi women’s in particular, in the field of literature, this paper seeks to introduce the development of the Saudi female novelist’s voice and its progress. It traces the improvement of the Saudi female novelist chronologically, demonstrating how writing is an essential tool for self-identification and self-expression. An analysis is made of how novels by Saudi women writers have changed through recent decades and how Prince Mohammad Bin Salman's 2030 Vision initiative might be said to have empowered these voices expressed in fictional words. It introduces the significance of Saudi female novels and how they create new fictional environments that uncover the inner strength of women and highlight their individual and collective empowerment. This paper demonstrates how Saudi female novelists have been fully aware of the significant influence of novels as one artistic means of expression. Today, th...

Codeswitching has been quite prevalent in the literature of multicultural communities (Lipski, 1982, p.192). However, it does not seem to be widely used in the literature of Arab-Americans living in the USA. Despite this fact, it has recently been an important literary aesthetic tool of Arab-American fiction. This study focuses on the use of codeswitching in Arab-American fiction that reflects not only the mingling of two languages, but also the blending of two opposed cultures one from the East the other from the West. It introduces how the use of Arabic words in English texts announces a bicultural identity and how such technique has recently become the sine qua non of some Arab-American fiction. Hence, this paper explores the use of codeswitching in the major literary work of one prominent Arab-American writer, Diana Abu-Jaber, in the novel Arabian Jazz (1993). It illustrates how Abu-Jaber, who is an Arab-American pioneer in her use of codeswitching, represents the Arab-American ...