Exploring Modern Narratives: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Hausa and Egyptian Novels

PhD Bashir Abu Sabe and PhD Sirajo Ibrahim
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PhD Bashir Abu Sabe: Department of Nigerian Languages, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, PMB 2218, Katsina
PhD Sirajo Ibrahim: Department of Nigerian Languages, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, PMB 2218, Katsina

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 3, 4366-4392

Abstract: Contemporary prose fiction is a fictitious story that is composed aimed at educating the readers. It is also known as creative writing, which can technically be considered as any writing of original composition. In this sense, creative writing is a more contemporary and process-oriented name for what has been traditionally called literature, including the variety of its genres. To trace the history of prose fiction, one has to go back to the origin of the people, that is to say, it is from the oral tradition of every society, this can be traced back from the Greeks. In this research work, effort have been made to compare Hausa and Egyptian novels to see and discuss major thematic and stylistics approach in some novels in the two societies. Two novels each from the two societies were selected for the comparison in the course of this research. They include Karshen Alewa Kasa (The end of sweetness) by Bature Gagare and Yacoubian Building (Imaratul Yacoubian) by Alaa Al-Aswany and Mace Mutum (Woman is also Human) by Rahma A. Majid and Zienat by Nawal As-Sa’adawi. The main aim and objective of the study are to compare the two selected themes in the two literatures, because of the intertwining of Marxist and feminist inclinations, and they urge to fight and seek justice for the common man. Bature Gagare and Alaa Al-Aswany are compared because they have similar thinking or ideas which is Marxism, they are revolutionist. That was why their novels were chose for the comparism. While Rahma A. Majid’s Mace Mutum and Nawal El-Sa’adawi’s Zeina because of their feminist activities. Theories and methodological framework of this research is Marxist/Socialist and feminist theory. The theory of Comparative literature will lead us in the cause of the study,

Date: 2025
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