Edward W. Said’s scientific contributions

... Here, Djebar's narrative reflects Hutcheon's idea that when re-rendering history through paradox, certain liberties are taken by the postmodern author who seeks to "contest" determined paradigms. In Djebar's interpellation of Fromentin's initial text, she puts Hutcheon's (1988) intertexts of history and fiction into practice, granting them equal significance through a parodic reinterpretation of past texts (p.122). The reversed hand Fromentin depicts in his text where he disrespects the unknown woman's death has not gone unquestioned by Djebar, who metaphorically views that "unexpected" feminine hand as an emblem for all lost feminine subjectivity. ...

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Re-Writing Her Story: Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Assia Djebar's Fantasia between the Interplay of Historical Legacy and Textual Representation