Narrative Techniques in Mashood Mahmood Jimba’s Oeuvre: A Structural Approach

Mashood Mahmood Jimba is a contemporary Arabic literary writers who has contributed tremendously to the development of Arabic literature in Nigeria. He traveled to different countries for  religion, educational and cultural purposes. He documented places, beautiful images, geographical  and living conditions of many countries he visited,  He equally recorded historical, cultural and social lives, and ideas of people during his journeys. This research aimed to reveal the narration techniques in his travels to evaluate the availability of narrative discourse components in his travelogue to access the successful of his method in narrating travel discourse. The researcher used the structural approach with the help of descriptive method .The results of the study shown that, the style of the author is characterized by many narrative techniques, these characteristics includes; the use of open and closed spaces during the course of events, and while narrating the time of events, he employed flashback and flash-forward to create mismatch between story time and narration time. But while narrating the narration time the traveler summarized and delete some events to speed up some events and avoid secondary events that do not contribute to the narrative context. while slow down the narration process he employed descriptive pause and dialogue scene to disrupt the events and give the characters the opportunity to present their feelings and emotions without interruption by the narrator The author combined between Primary and secondary characters, and exposed their Physical, psychological and social dimensions.  He equally convert primary narrator to secondary narrator in some context