File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-02-20.131, message 289


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>


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