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Discussion of Tombéza by Rachid Mimouni Tuesday, December 4 The purpose of my reading of Rachid Mimouni’s
work and presentation of his title character Tombéza is to
examine his representation of the unpresentable and articulation
of the unspeakable. In his novel he gives a leading role to a |
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handicapped
protagonist and voices with him a statement on the condition of
the people in Algerian society. My aim is to explore the position
of the physically disabled in a Post-Colonial Arab/Muslim society
and to examine the function of disability as narrative within a
piece of North African literature. We will investigate the gendered
social causes and consequences of disability in a specific Maghrebian
cultural setting. Such a context determines the predicament of the
surviving disabled through society’s misreading of their different
physical marks. A correction would be attempted through a supplement
from an Islamic and progressive reading of physical difference..|
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