Autobiographical Discourse and Overlapping of the Narrative Genres Reading of the Structural Features in the Novel (Kiristāla) A

This study, entitled (Autobiographical Discourse and Overlapping of the Narrative Genres, A Reading of the Structural Features in the Novel “Kiristāla”),seeks to reveal the features of the autobiographical discourse in the novel (Kiristāla, Daftar aḥwāl sayyidatī) by Mohamed Abdel Aziz Abdel Dayem, as a flexible discourse that allows overlapping of narrative genres especially novel, and biography, by identifying the structural features characteristic of the formation of this discourse; where intertextuality, and its types: religious, historical, and popular, play a role in determining the specificity of the literary genre, as well as the formations of description, portraits, and the forms of synonymy and opposite that reveal the relations between these distinctive structural features and the intentions of its producer, the discourse purposes, and the social, political, and cultural contexts of its production. The study reveals that the novel takes its particularity from the Egyptian village scenes it draws, and while it mainly draws special paints of the Egyptian village in 40s onwards, some of its events happen in time of 1919 revolution. The study analyzed the texture and content of the twenty chapters of the novel with their variety of main characters, psychological analysis and selected events to conclude that it is a narrative autobiography.