Be Like Adam's Son - Theorising, Writing and Practising Peace in the Arab Region - Fernanda Fischione
7. Literature as a Mirror: The Search for Peace and Pacification in Moroccan Society as Depicted in Banāt al-ṣubbār (2018) by Karīmah Aḥdād
Be Like Adam's Son - Theorising, Writing and Practising Peace in the Arab Region - Fernanda Fischione
Paola Viviani [+]
Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta
Paola Viviani is Senior Lecturer at the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy. Her research focuses on modern Arabic literature, especially the Nahḍah press and prose, and contemporary novel. She has translated from Arabic into Italian short-stories and novels from Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, UAE. She edited the Italian translation of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn’s Fi-l-ši‘r al-ǧāhilī as La poesia araba preislamica (2020).
Description
This chapter investigates whether and to what extent a renewed approach to pacification within the Moroccan society can still be possible, in the light of the considerations and proposals present in the novel Banāt al-ṣubbār (Cactus Girls, 2018) by Karīmah Aḥdād.