L'orizzonte

It is from the vantage point of deconstruction and reconstruction that this analysis of three novels written by three French Maghrebian writers (Assia Djebar, Sabiha Khemir and Rachida Madani) takes shape. The three women writers are all contemporary, all dislocated, all culturally apart, in one sense or another, and are all in quest of a triumph (cultural or textual) that will not and cannot come to be. In a deliberate and requisite effort to forge an alternate path, one must resolutely, if submissively, de-trope these works, so as to situate and disinter therein the foci of plight and loss, distance and intimacy, self and other, victory and betrayal. In and by this very process of meta-poetic exploration, the multi-layered components of discursive struggle come to define the very weave of fragmentation.