Autore
Ruocco, Monica

Titolo
L'amor di terra lontana nella narrativa araba contemporanea
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 115 - Pagina finale: 130

In Arabic contemporary literature, the representation of love for a personcoming from a Western country has been the subject of various fictionalworks. Most of these novels identify the love stories as paradigmaticexamples of the broader East-West debate, or issues related to the literatureof diaspora and migration. Object of this study is, in particular, the novelRawà'i Marie-Claire (The scent of Marie-Claire, 2008) by the Tunisian writerHabib Selmi. Through the love affair between Ma!fū#, a Tunisian leavingin Paris and his French girlfriend, Marie-Claire, it is possible to identify afurther step in the Arab representation of the West, and particularly in therepresentation of a new Arab male identity.



SICI: 2279-8978(2012)2<115:LDTLNN>2.0.ZU;2-R
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