ABIDI, Sihem Arfaoui Jendouba University, Tunisia

Nationalist Didacticism in Fatima Mernissi s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

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Running counter to the imperialist claim of Children s literature as a European invention and manifestation, this article goes a step further by reading into the ideological interpellation of Fatima Mernissi s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. Published in 1994, Dreams of Trespass is explored as an African children s text that reads into national education as a means to and a backbone of childhood education. Mernissi s text undermines the child-adult binary (and beyond it the personal/ political split) in the process of exemplifying the formative impact of Moroccan nationalism on the Mernissi children and vice versa.

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Mernissi , Dreams of Trespass , icon , national heroism , children as citizens

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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