Fundamental Violence: Postcolonial Paradoxes in the Fictions of Tahar Ben Jelloun

Abstract

Discusses "how the problematic representation of 'the fundamentalist' and 'fundamentalism'" in Tahar Ben Jelloun's novels "La nuit sacrée" and "L'enfant de sable" "leads necessarily to the activation of a number of other stereotypes regarding 'Islam', 'the Arab', and the 'victimized-Third-World-woman'."