the manifestations of post-modernism in the novel barari alhomaby ibrahim nasr-allah

10 / research in arabic language and literature: foreign languages faculty research biannual journal (autumn winter 2012-2013) issue 7 the manifestations of post-modernism in the novel barari alhoma by ibrahim nasr-allah ahmad reza saedi * aliyeh jafari zadeh ** abstract the word post-modernism expresses a new era in the history of western civilization, which is known by the feeling of disillusion with modernity and effort to criticize it and seek new authority, and it has significant effects in many grounds. the purpose of this research is to review the phenomenon of post-modernism in the novel barari alhoma by ebrahim nasr-allah because it is a literary text and contains manifest characteristics of post-modernism and indicates the dominant features of post-modern works and trends of this phenomenon. this writer especially has remarkable ability to express these characteristics artistically and differently. in this research, firstly remarkable techniques of post-modernism in this novel are indicated including exaggeration and overstatement in imagination, multiplicity and plurality instead of unity, lack of a main topic, antagonist, feeling of wrath and being imaginary, denial of causality, etc. then, we survey some pieces of the story according to the dominant characteristics of post-modernism. key words: ibrahim nasr-allah, post-modern novel, barari al_homa, postmodernism.