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This paper intends to trace the narrative structure of A Land Without Jasmine and find out the correlation between it and the central theme of the novel. A Land Without Jasmine is a novel by the Yemeni novelist Wajdi Alahdal. The book runs into ninety pages and is divided into six chapters. Each chapter is narrated by a different narrator resulting in six different points of view which enriches the narrative. These different views make the narrative of the work complicated and consequently complicated narrative structure. Narrative techniques and strategies are traced and analyzed with the help of the modern structuralist approach. G. Genette, T. Todorov, M. Bakhtin are among those whose views and critical writings are used as guidelines in scrutinizing the text.
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