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1981
Volume 5, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1368-2679
  • E-ISSN: 1758-9142

Abstract

by Lyne Tywa may be viewed as a love story. However, this unusual novel, relating the turmoil of a married woman's forbidden passion for another man, reveals an attempt to unleash the daring voice of a Moroccan woman. One of the main characteristics of this novel is the use of a pseudonym in the narrative strategy. This article raises the following questions. Is the love story in one that encompasses an illicit passion? Does the novelist hide behind a name to reveal, in explicit details, unusual aspects of her erotic passion? Is there a strategy that counteracts the wrath of an Arabo-Muslim society which imposes its own sense of morality? Or is renaming herself an attempt to redefine her own personal identity, a rebirth in society embedded in preconceptions, taboos and censorship?

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2003-11-01
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