Cultural Diversity in Inam Kajjaji’s Novels

This study, entitled “multicultural in the novels of Inaam Kachachi “, has  aimed  to study a cultural theme within its artistic dimensions in the literary and biographical text.  The  theme is the theme of “multicultural,”  which  is the general concept in the field of social studies and how it appears in the literary text through its personal elements  , place, time. The question of “multicultural ” concerns the existence of many cultures coexisting in the same physical, geographical or social space.  It includes all the differences that are framed within culture, whether religious, linguistic, and ethnic or gender, in the personal narrative text elements and their relationship to place and time. We discuss cultural diversity in building the character within the narrative text.   By  deeply  investigating  the novels of the Iraqi writer Inaam Kachachi, the study covered the concepts of research by presenting the main and sucondary questions and the importance of the study and introducing the culture and multi cultural at the linguistic and idiomatic level and the concept of hybridity and identifying the narratives of cultural pluralism and its characteristics as well as the life of the novelist in addition to her  novels (Swaqi Al-Quloub in 2005, Al hafida al Amirkiya in 2008, Tashari in 2013, and Al-Nabizeh in 2017).   According  to  the  structures of  the  various  characters,  the  writer  presented  various  relationship and   for   each character ,according to  his  culture,  has  a  relation to  the  place Including the personality of the  multicultural, the character  of the immigrant, the different  ideology, and the different sex. The novels also highlighted the value of religious and human  tolerance throughout history, which the Iraqi person was living through historical periods of half a century and the interventions of the authority in them. the original question that was asked at the beginning of the research is  how does  the fictional text deal with the issue of multicultural narratively, according to Innam Kachachi?  As a result, the novelist presented a critical treatment through her four novels “Swaqi Al-Quloub, Hafida al  Amirkiya, Tashari, Al-Nabiza” with types of characters representing multicultural within the Iraqi community in different buildings and different spatial relationships.  The study reached the results.  1. The novels produced a parallel narrative to the narratives of power, sometimes being oppressed by society. The novels focus on the human perspective, and they are a parallel narrative to the narratives of power and society, and some statements of religion and power.   2. The novels  are considered a historical account of Iraq’s past and present by narrating real facts within the novels that included   realities  of fifty years and depicting them in a way that attracts the reader.