(Diaspora Maps) Gender Openness and Diversity of Narrative Visions

There is no doubt that determining the qualitative or generic identity of any text enables the critic to critically address it in light of the standards and rules of the genre to which it belongs. However, this determination is no longer an easy matter after literary genres or types began to cross-pollinate and overlap with each other to the extent that it prompted creators to write what is known today as open text, which refuses to be classified into a specific genre or type. Moreover, it prompted a significant number of critics to line up around an opinion that undermines the theory of literary genres that remained dominant for a long time. Perhaps one of the best genres to respond to and support this opinion is autobiography, which is written in various narrative styles and demonstrates the significant overlap between autobiography and other literary genres. Thus, forming other literary genres that have their qualitative specificity formed from their overlap with different genres. Hence the difficulty of finding a comprehensive and exhaustive definition of the literary text, whatever its type, neither in the Arab heritage and even the world nor in the modern critical corpus, Arabic and globally. Accordingly, we note from the beginning that our comparison of what will come in the Novel (Diaspora Maps), qualitatively, is nothing but an attempt to approach the nature of this Novel that is open to what is biographic, and to move away from the concept of definition with its stereotyped horizon, which includes a lot of firmness and rigidity