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dc.contributor.advisor | De Beer, Anna-Marie | |
dc.contributor.postgraduate | Mbooh, Jeanne Odette | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-08T11:32:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-08T11:32:45Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020-04-25 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.description | Dissertation (MA (French))--University of Pretoria, 2020. | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | This research deals with the condition of Moroccan women as represented in The Sand Child (1985) and The Sacred Night (1987). In The Sand Child, the storyteller narrates the life of a girl named Ahmed, whose father, humiliated not to have a male heir, decided to raise her as a boy due to issues of honour and inheritance. Ahmed goes through this difficult journey by confronting the insensitivity of his family and the prohibitions of society. In The Sacred Night, the continuation of The Sand Child, Ahmed becomes Zara, thus, reclaiming his/her identity. Combining the imaginary with reality, the two books offer a dark portrait of Arab society, revealing the misogyny, the injustices committed against those marginalised by society such as women, the poor and the disadvantaged. These two texts represent Tahar Ben Jelloun’s literary attack on the patriarchal nature of Moroccan society. This study aims to identify and analyse the strategies of struggle and resistance against this status quo as portrayed in these two novels. | en_ZA |
dc.description.availability | Unrestricted | en_ZA |
dc.description.degree | MA (French) | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Modern European Languages | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Mbooh, JM. 2020, Analyse de la condition féminine dans l’enfant de sable et la nuit sacrée de Tahar ben Jelloun, Master dissertation, university of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77976 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.other | A2021 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77976 | |
dc.language.iso | fr | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | University of Pretoria | |
dc.rights | © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. | |
dc.subject | UCTD | en_ZA |
dc.title | Analyse de la condition féminine dans l’enfant de sable et la nuit sacrée de Tahar ben Jelloun | en_ZA |
dc.type | Dissertation | en_ZA |