Wasini Al-aʿraj's Dystopian Prophecy in 2084: The Story of the Last Arab
الملخص
This paper argues that Wasini Al-aʿraj's novel 2084: The Story of the Last Arab (2016) is an example of the 21st century Arabic dystopian fiction. The narrative is engaged in an intertextual relationship with many past and contemporary texts and voices to resist and subvert the ongoing imperial ideology targeting the Arabs and their sovereignty. My way of reading this narrative is relying on the textual analysis to unravel the aesthetics of the text. The main objective is to display how the writer applies the innovative aspects such as intertextuality, fragmentation, double-voicedness and metafiction to attack the sources of corruption that control the Arabs and their lives in a rapidly changing world. The novel positions itself as a surprise to the contemporary reader due to the multiplicity of embedded discourses that decorate the narrative and thematic structures of the story in its postmodern texture.
