World Literature Today, July 1st, 2003
Paris. Eden. 2002. 117 pages. 11 [euro]. ISBN 2-913245-49-8
A CONSISTENT THEME in Leila Sebbar's early fiction, particularly in her celebrated Scheherazade trilogy (Sherazade, 17 ans, brune, frisee, les yeux verts [1982], Les Carnets de Sherazade [1985], and Le Fou de Sherazade [1991]), was a reconsideration of nineteenth-century orientalism given postcolonial concerns and transnational realities in contemporary France. As many have noted, Sebbar's Scheherazade resists being appropriated by the imposition of orientalist signifiers, thus inscribing herself in a representational autonomy affo...
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