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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date spring 1996) In the following review, Hibbard lauds the moral "shaping impulses" of Corruption, asserting that Ben Jelloun's text reveals the "endemic" social corruption in certain Arab countries.]...
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From: Middle East Journal[(review date summer 1988) In the following excerpt, Thatcher applauds Ben Jelloun's use of metaphor and imagery in The Sand Child, calling the novel "sensitive and perceptive."] All of these novels are thematically...
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From: College Literature[(essay date spring 2003) In the following essay, Running-Johnson analyzes Ben Jelloun's essay Alberto Giacometti & Ben Jelloun (1991). Running-Johnson is primarily interested in what the piece reveals about Ben...
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From: Forum for Modern Language Studies[(essay date 2009) Below, Flaugh considers the novels L'enfant de sable (The Sand Child) and La nuit sacrée (The Sacred Night) examples of "operated" narratives: stories that manipulate gender and identity through the...
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From: Disguise, Deception, Trompe-L'Oeil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, El-Hoss examines The Sand Child, focusing on the stages of Ahmed's life: his physical and symbolic deceptions; his growing authoritarianism; his marriage to an epileptic cousin;...