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Abstract:Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L’Enfant de sable is a novel that sparked controversies due to its openly sexual nature and to its transgressive stance vis-à-vis social and religious taboos in Moroccan society. Odile Cazenave (1991: 449) remarks that L’Enfant de sable is a ‘controversial text’ due to the fact that it ‘underlines the dangers of opposing norms and being different’. Additionally, Patricia Geesey points out that the positive critical reception of Ben Jelloun’s work in France differs from the negative public reactions in Morocco. Ben Jelloun, according to Geesey (1999: 151), ‘has been the subject of controversy because of what he writes and because his works find a larger audience abroad than in Morocco’. Similarly, Hédi Abdel-Jaouad (1990: 35) remarks that L’Enfant de sable epitomises a ‘sacrilegious discourse’ that vehemently subverts patriarchal discourse as well as all forms of Islamic conservatism. |
