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L’hybridité dans L’Écrivain public et L’Enfant de sable de Tahar Ben Jelloun

Magdalena Zdrada-Cok

Abstract

The article aims to analyze L’Écrivain public and L’Enfant de sable by Tahar Ben Jelloun, focusing on the issue of hybrydity which is discussed from the postcolonial and postmodern perspective (Bhabha, De Toro). The analysis concentrates on the oriental tale which deconstructs the paradigm of the novel and the autobiography. However, the article also depicts that Tahar Ben Jelloun derives his ideas from the oral tradition so as to, similarly as Jorge Luis Borges, give his works an intertextual and intercultural dimension. Through the nomadic structure of the tale, which is present both in the novel and in the autobiography, the writer rejects the idea of a conservative and monolithic Moroccan society and opposes stereotypes.


Key words: Hybridity, tale, postmodern autobiography, Moroccan novel in French.

Citation rules

Zdrada-Cok, M. L’hybridité dans L’Écrivain public et <i>L’Enfant de sable</i> de Tahar Ben Jelloun. Romanica Silesiana, 6(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/5798

Vol. 6 (2011)
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ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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