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Handicap, solitude et altérité dans Illuminations
Handicap, Solitude and Otherness in Hédi Bouraoui’s Illuminations autistes

Author(s): Abderrahman Beggar
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: solitude; handicap; Other; power; psychiatry

Summary/Abstract: This article is about solitude in Illuminations autitistes by Hédi Bouraoui, a Franco-Ontarian Tunisian born author. Solitude is analyzed in the context of disciplinary modes proper to the psychiatric institution. It is also considered as a mode of resistance against this same institution and the mechanisms of social domination that legitimize it. This study emphasizes on language as a domain of exercise of power.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 106-117
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French
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