Thinking the Border Notion in Fatima Mernissi’s ‘Rêves de femmes’ –some identity, cultural and generic transgression–

Abstract

Through its representation crossed by Islamic feminist ideology, a perspective on the border and its poetics in Rêves de femmes : une enfance au harem by Fatima Mernissi, opens up like a topo on this basic scheme to the constitution of the humanentity (especially female) as being situated which is situated. Focusing on various orders of discourse, sometimes crossed, sometimes opposed, in the fields of literature, sociology, geography and culture, ourtrajectory will navigate around and within this complex notion of the border. The interest of this article is reflected in the historicalsociological analysis that allows us to understand that beyond the transgressions of geographical, cultural and religious boundaries, Mernissian womentry to impose their place in various spheres of public space.