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Kalila wa Dimna

Marroum, Marianne (2016-01-18)

In this article I argue that René Girard’s modern anthropological theory of mimetic desire that he put forth in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure and developed in his subsequent books is ...
Lebanon’s greening imagination

Marroum, Marianne (2018-05-03)

This paper examines the narratives of a group of Lebanese authors and artists on nature in Lebanon, collected in an anthology entitled The Lost Space: The Views of Lebanese Authors and Artists on Nature (2009) published ...
Sands of Imprisonment, Subjugation, and Empowerment

Marroum, Marianne (2016-01-18)

88 Marianne MarrouM Sands of Imprisonment, Subjugation, and Empowerment Reading Foucault in Kobo Abe?s The Woman in the Dunes Any reader who is familiar with the fiction of the Japanese modernist writer and critic Kobo Abe ...
Water and Sand

Marroum, Marianne (2016-01-18)

This study interprets Japanese novelist Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes in terms of the interplay of water and sand, taken now as a dialectic of disorder and order, entropy and negative entropy (negentropy). The protagonist ...
What’s So Great About Home?

Marroum, Marianne (2016-01-18)

This essay addresses the theme of displacement in Hanan al-Shaykh’s Hikāyat Zahra (1980) [The Story of Zahra] and in Andrée Chedid’s La maison sans racines (1985) [The House without Roots].1 These two novels written in ...

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