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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hamil, Mustapha

Titel

4 Rewriting Identity and History: The Sliding Barre(s) in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sacred Night

Ist Teil von

• Maghrebian Mosaic: A Literature in Transition, 2001, p.61-80

Ort / Verlag

Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• By insisting on reading the unconscious as language, James Mellard argues, "Lacan brings his analysis immediately into the domain of literary analysis" (56). [...]language—or literary texts, for that matter—not only structures our perception of ourselves and of reality but also determines how the subject becomes aware of itself as an independent entity. Because of its double implication, language functions at the same time as a screen and as a veil. [...]subversion of meaning develops into a sociopolitical revolt.] One may wonder why "sociopolitical revolts" can only be launched from the site of the woman's body and language. In Maghrebian culture, women are the first to be excluded by/from power relationships and structures. [...]through the use of a metaphoric language, authors aim primarily at displacing the Law/Name-of-the-Father within a regenerative dynamic of gender politics.