Open AccessLe sujet postcolonial est-il soluble dans l’eau ? Le motif aquatique dans À l’ombre des gouttes de Saber Assal
Author(s) -
Przemysław Szczur
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
lubelskie materiały neofilologiczne/lublin studies in modern languages and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4580
pISSN - 0137-4699
DOI - 10.17951/lsmll.2018.42.3.178
Subject(s) - motif (music) , humanities , hero , art , psychic , literature , philosophy , aesthetics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
This paper aims to analyse the forms and functions of the aquatic motif in Saber Assal’s autofictional novel À l’ombre des gouttes. It is a recurring motif that structures the story in various ways: by its regular reappearance (including in the incipit and at the end of the novel), its functionality in the representation of the psychic life of the hero, its symbolic dimension and its emblematic nature for the postcolonial character.