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Real Estate And Stating The Real In Jean Echenoz's L'Occupation Des Sols, Philip G. Hadlock
Real Estate And Stating The Real In Jean Echenoz's L'Occupation Des Sols, Philip G. Hadlock
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Through its extremely minimal account of the aftermath of an apartment fire, Jean Echenoz's L'Occupation des sols raises intriguing questions about the grounding of property—its occupation des sols—in Western consciousness. The narrative situation allegorizes the longstanding convention in which man is associated with property ownership while woman is associated with property itself. Though seeming to uphold this paradigm, Echenoz presents a challenging perspective of the functions that gendered scenarios of property perform in sustaining symbolic relations and anchoring the "real" in Western thought.
The Rewriting Of History In Amin Maalouf's The Crusades Through Arab Eyes , Carine Bourget
The Rewriting Of History In Amin Maalouf's The Crusades Through Arab Eyes , Carine Bourget
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This paper analyzes the narrative strategies that shape Maalouf's rewriting of the history of the Crusades, examines why considerations of the problems inherent to the historiographical act are relegated to the background, and how Maalouf links his text to politics contemporary to its writing. I argue that while Maalouf brilliantly deconstructs the Western image of the Crusades as a heroic time by documenting the barbarity of the Crusaders without falling into the pitfall of simply inverting the terms of the dichotomy, the agenda driving his rewriting of this historical period leads him to partially repeat what his book is supposed …