Image of Death in Contemporary Gulf Novel

The present study attempts to depict the image of death in contemporary Gulf novel in an approach completely different from the analytical approaches of death image in previous Arab novels. This difference is based on the researcher's belief that a literary work reveals society's defects and represents its cultural, social, and intellectual history.
The Gulf novel has been unique for being derived from the Islamic conception of life and people, and connected with a conservative society not much influenced by foreign effects as it happened in most Arab Islamic societies. This has led to multiple topics and experiences in Gulf novel, in which the image of death is the most distinct. This is due to the fact that the novelist's imagination represents society's culture and values.
Thus, the main reason for selecting this topic is the uniqueness of Gulf novelists, unlike other Arab novelists, in their view of the most serious, realistic, and destructive topic, death. This view controls their literary works where we feel their weakness towards and fear of death power when they face it; their faith helps them to defeat death and overcome its inevitability.

Here spontaneously lies the main aim of the present study. It attempts to investigate Gulf novelist's disorders when missing life full of bust, action, and ambition, and his conflict with eternal absence reflected in death's strict inevitability starting from birth cry. It also traces the views and spaces of this experience with its image representing life fields in their fast temporal end.