Corresponding to the colonial imagination in a novel "Sunset Oasis" by Bahaa Tahe

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This research is concerned with revealing the visions and perceptions that
correspond to the cosmopolitan imagination of the Orient in the novel “Sunset Oasis”
by Bahaa Taher. In search of the causality of this correspondence through the
interpretation of the components of the narration and the elements of its construction:
place, time, characters, and narrative plot, an interpretation based on questions, the
most important of which is why “Siwa Oasis”? Why the end of the nineteenth century?
Why are the elements of writing the journey borrowed to write the novel? These
questions made the research seek to capture the theme of “culture and imperialism” in
the study sample novel through archiving its worlds, the reason for employing the
elements of writing the journey, and intensifying the distorted image of the Orient in
the colonial imagination.