Manifestations of Racism and the Narration of Suffering in the Quest for a Lost Self in African Novels: A Reading in the Novels of Haji Jaber

Identity is considered one of the most crucial issues in African narrative, which emerged from the depths of suffer-ing to reveal the tense self through its relationship with existence. Here, we find ourselves confronted with themes of migration, homeland, war, and racism. African novels can be considered a space for revealing the tension be-tween the African individual and their lost identity. In discussing African novels, the narrative of the novelist Haji Jaber is presented. Jaber is an African novelist who has gained considerable recognition recently due to his creative works that depict the image of the African individ-ual, expressing their hopes, pains, and aspirations that have been scattered in a violated homeland that refuses to acknowledge them amidst the fragmentation of identity and a lost self. How could the novelist narrate all this suf-fering with a deceptive innocence that makes us believe that the subject is merely a novel?