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Drawing on the rich arabic oral tradition, ben jelloun relates the extraordinary events of ahmeds life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have. Harcourt brace jovanovich, 1987 dlc 87007556 ocolc15428839. The sand child tells the story of a moroccan fathers effort to thwart the consequences of islams inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Tahar ben jelloun shows in his own way that gender is a social construction in an orthodox arab society. In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in morocco, tahar ben jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary arab social customs and islamic law. Research paper commerce english women in the novels of tahar. The sand child johns hopkins university press books. First published in france, the novels message expresses on multiple. In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in morocco, tahar ben jelloun offers an imaginative. Tahar ben jelloun s the sand child is written around the concept of social construction of gender. The novelist succeeds in sustaining this theme throughout the novel. As the sole male figure in the house, ahmed has replaced his father as patriarch, but.

First published in france, the novels message expresses on multiple levels ideas about the postcolonial condition of morocco while also emphasising themes relating to the construction of individual identities. In the sand child, a father is anticipating his eighth child and eighth. Download citation analyse of the theme of obligatory identity in the sand child, by tahar ben jelloun the sand child is the masterpiece by the moroccan french author, tahar benjelloun. I believe that jelloun uses the theme of gender manipulation and social perceptions of sex as a social construct throughout the novel, although it is not the only theme he. The sand child by tahar ben jeloun was first published by seuil in 1985 in france.