دور الثقافة الشعبية في بناء النص الروائي

Across the globe, literature is linked to oral culture, given its significant presence in many literary realisations, and it often becomes the foundation of its artistic vision, especially in novels with a post-colonial background. In this paper, we attempt to examine some of the elements of oral culture in two novels that fall into the category of post-colonial novels: Kasban Hatta (2006) by the late Egyptian novelist Fouad Kandil and Zariat al-Bilad (2004) by the Moroccan writer Habib Daim Rabi. In this paper, we will highlight how these two authors exploit the elements of oral culture in the construction of their two novels, including stories, proverbs, metaphors, dialogues, jokes, parables, legends, behaviours and values, without neglecting the language and its expressive loads of popular culture, to confirm their belonging to the post-colonial novel.