Abstract

Objectives: The research seeks to reveal the image of women in the Yemeni novel in all its various states, as they appeared in the leading roles (tyrannical, working, educated, revolutionary, lover, rebel, fighter, ambitious, motherhood), in addition to their forced submission to male authority, as well as revealing the issues of dramatic conflict between men and women regarding issues of customs and traditions, and illuminating for the recipient how the interiors of the various female characters are in various social issues, and the Yemeni writer Habib Abdul Rab Saruri employed a number of narrative techniques in the novels that we employed in the research, including the novel The Bird of Destruction, The Daughter of Suslov, The Sweat of the Gods, Arwa, The Hoopoe Report and Damlan, in addition to the writer revealing to the reader in the dialogue of the characters the issues of psychological alienation and what Yemeni women were exposed to from political, social, and economic events that affected their psyches to see the victim subject to the authority of the patriarchal system for the writer to walk in the steps of the savior of women from their concerns and sympathize with them in the narrative writing of his novels to impose women Its capabilities as an effective influential element in Yemeni society.                                                                                                                     
Methodology: The social approach based on the analytical reading of the studied narrative texts was employed in light of the science of narratives, and the research sample (novel texts) was employed in addition to employing sources, letters, university theses, periodicals and the Internet.                
Results: The Yemeni writer (Habib Abdul Rab Sururi) presented his novels in a way that approaches reality to influence the recipient to criticize and expose reality, to monitor the manifestations of fragmentation and dispersion in Yemen, so that the presentation of reality is with an influential literary and aesthetic vision .       
The writer diversified in presenting the role of the characters, some of which he presented directly through the description of the finest details or through the self-description that the hero presents about himself, or through the dominance of the narrator in explaining the events .            
The writer was not traditional in his writings to record women's active presence in the making of dramatic events, as he was not satisfied with her role as a housewife, but rather her roles varied in main and secondary characters .                              
In the narration of novels, we observe the diversity of narrative techniques in the multiplicity of voices, times and places. The narration did not proceed at a single pace, and thus the writer achieves a qualitative leap in the world of literary writing in general and in the novel in particular .    
Research limits: The objective and technical limits regarding the treatment of samples of literary work (a collection of novels) by a Yemeni writer (Habib Abdul Rab Saruri) in what it presents of various issues that affected Yemeni society in general and women in particular. Within analytical limits, we observe the female characters with the concerns and suffering they carried and how the writer stood and sympathized with them.