Ideological Alienation in the Novel "Women of the Moon" by Jokha Al-Harthi

Abstract

Objectives: The research aims to investigate ideological appropriation embedded within implicit structures, revealing societal ideologies and the role of women.

Methods: To achieve its objective, the research adopts an analytical descriptive cultural approach rooted in the text, employing various analytical functions, to elucidate what remains marginalized within this dominance. It involves utilizing text archaeology and establishing a network of relationships between the text and society at various levels and linking them to the hypotheses of ideological appropriation.

Results: The study highlights the role of ideology in appropriation, the state of exclusion, subjugation of the oppressed self, and the appropriation of consciousness. This occurs at a moment when the novelist attempts to provide an alternative by constructing awareness and an independent self that preserves the values and customs of society in which values are not lost, and morals are not appropriated by the occupying colonizer. The events in the novel unfold implicitly in two directions: the quest for the self-appropriated by the male other, and the lost identity appropriated by the colonizer.

Conclusions: The study seeks to uncover the various concepts of ideological appropriation, defining its concepts, forms, and hidden implicit patterns which take three directions: the ideological, representing the core focus of appropriation and the exclusion of thought and self-expression; the self-appropriation, symbolizing the stage of self-denial and the appropriation of being; and cultural appropriation, which assumes the most oppressive direction by ensnaring individuals in a spiral of ignorance and cognitive impoverishment, as evident in the concept of domination.