Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:10:38 -0700 (MST) From: Lahoucine Ouzgane <Lahoucine.Ouzgane-AT-UAlberta.CA> Subject: Re: postcolonial male bodies Will, You may want to have a look at Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun's *The Sand Child*: the story of a father who, feeling ashamed for having produced only seven daughters, decides to raise his next child (who turns out to be another girl!) as a boy, then as a man. This is the best novel I know that deals with the literal construction of the male body in a postcolonial setting. Ben Jelloun went on to win le prix de Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize in 1987 for his next novel, *The Sacred Night*, a follow-up to *The Sand Child*. *The Sand Child*. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York and San Diego: HBJ, 1987. ISBN: 0-15179287-9 Cheers, Lahoucine Ouzgane English, U of Alberta, Canada <lahoucine.ouzgane-AT-ualberta.ca> --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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