Woman’s body in Azeddin Gelawji’s novel «The triple of land and wind»

Abstract

A woman’s body significances are dangerous taboos in the Algerian society, in particular, since they’re religiously and socially linked to all forbidden and sacred. She imposed her presence with body characterizing her gender and social belonging, which resulted various dimensions and significances multiplied with the multiplicity of her character in the novelistic text. The Algerian novelist Azeddin Gelawji’s novel “The triple of land and wind” designed the overall features of this body. He depicted it in various situations; body, intellectuality, spirit and symbol, according to his ideological, cultural and historical references.

On the basis of the aforementioned, this study aims to present a cultural vision to the narration of a woman’s body in “The triple of land and wind” in which the cultural significances have occupied its structure through the spatial and temporal space, characters and feminine relationships multiplicity controlling the artistic structure elements depending on the idea statement and the meaning construction. Among these ideas, a woman’s body significances in the novelistic text.