The Meta-Characteral Representations of Meta-Narrative Structure in Taqs (Climate) of Amir Taj Alsir

The character is one of the most important elements in any novel, especially in meta-narrative studies in which this element come fictionally, or the character of the author in the text, and determines the problematic of the narration which may be studied within the narrative studies. As a sequence, this technique, known as Meta-narration, repeated frequently until the fiction overlaps the reality or a text comes within another text. The Sudanese author, Amir Taj Alsir, has very often applied this technique in different ways in his novels, especially in Taqs (Climate) where the narrator of the text is meanwhile an author of the novel. Accordingly, we find the novel Hunger Wishes inside the Taqs. As a result, develops the technique of Meta-narration which represents “a story taking place within another story.” As the reading of the novel proceeds, we’re going to introduce and distinguish the characters from the beginning to the end, for the reason of not reducing the surprise element and to give a clue of the ambiguity of the Meta-narrative plot. This article aims to study the meanwhile fictional and real character of Nishān Hamzeh Nishān who was created by the main character’s phantasy and entered in his real life, a technique that oriented this study to concentrate on meta-reality of the novel’s characters. Finally, the article studies Meta-narration, meta-narrative events of characters, fictional and real character, the internal and external structure of meta-narrative writing, meta-characteral fiction, meta-character and meta-narrator. Through this study, it turns out that the meta-character affects the navel plot and takes it beyond the narration. This study is carried out according to analytical-descriptive method and has come to results, the most important among which is that the character oscillates between the fiction and the reality in the meta-narrative text and helps the realm of the imagination until the illusion. It is also possible to use the expression “meta-character” as an independent technique, a process noticed a lot in Taqs (Climate) novel for the character Nishān Hamzeh Nishān.