Hair and curse in Barberousse and The Blond Queen by Michel Tournier Cover Image

Chevelure et malédiction dans Barberousse et La Reine blonde de Michel Tournier
Hair and curse in Barberousse and The Blond Queen by Michel Tournier

Author(s): Fadwa Mohammad Abouzeid
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: curse; physical identity; beard; hair; difference;

Summary/Abstract: Novelist, storyteller, philosopher by training, Michel Tournier tackles in his novel The Golden Droplet, published in 1985, the problem of racism towards people with different physiques. Through the axial intrigue of the novel, that of Idriss, and especially those annexed to Barberousse and The Blond Queen, the author presents the stereotypes that confront otherness, the unlike (negro, redhead, blond, etc.) and calls for respect for physical differences and acceptance of the different Other. It is a whole philosophy of the representation of the other that he develops in his novel and that we propose to analyze in this study.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 45-62
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: French
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