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Abstract:
Zayd Mutee Dammaj's The Hostage is one of the narratives that addresses the suffering and struggling of the Yemeni people under the imamate rule. This narrative does not come to express the life of one of the Yemeni hostages in the prison and later on as a servant in the palace of the Governor of Imam, but it comes to express the concerns of a nation oppressed to respond to the imamate demands pre-revolution. This article is an attempt to go through reconstructing of the identity of a hostage who still young and reshaping his identity may not take too much efforts. Through the reconstructing of the hostage identity and its manifestations in his life, this article traces impact of this sort of life in a life of a small hostage who has taken from his mother to enforce his family and tribe to respond positively to the imamate illegal demands. The life of the hostage reveals the corruption and absurdity of life in the palace of the Governor of Imam and his relatives who claim piety. It is found that the life of Governor's palace left a deep influence in the physical, psychological, cultural, sexual and religious life of the hostage. Eventually the hostage managed to escape from this life to unknown future.

Keywords: Imamate- Yemeni- Reconstruction- Identity

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