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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:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel L'enfant de sable proposes that gender is a colonization of the body. This essay considers that proposition by placing it in a theoretical dialogue with postcolonial and gender...
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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: Research in African Literatures[(essay date winter 2006) In this essay, Saunders studies L'enfant de sable (The Sand Child) for its analogizing of Ahmed's uncertain gender and Moroccan decolonization. Saunders also examines the protectorate's interest...
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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;...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date January-February 2010) In the review below, Levy focuses on its theme of fractured identity in Leaving Tangier.] As The Sand Child contained Borges and Shahrazad, who underscored its powerful blend of...
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From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 34) Peer-ReviewedA recipient of Western literary awards, such as the Prix Goncourt, Tahar Ben Jelloun has become a prominent Maghrebi author. His fiction has circulated widely; his novels L'enfant de sable (1985) and La nuit sacree...