L'image de la Bédouine chez Isabelle Eberhardt: Entre réalité et fiction

شحاته, شيرين

doi:10.21608/jltmin.2024.395484

L'image de la Bédouine chez Isabelle Eberhardt: Entre réalité et fiction

نوع المستند : Research papers

المؤلف

شيرين شحاته

Département de Langue et de Littérature Francaises, Faculté des Arts, Université du Caire, Égypte

10.21608/jltmin.2024.395484

المستخلص

For Eberhardt, the image of the Bedouin is both influenced by real experiences she had in the Orient and by her romanticized Western gaze. In her literary creation, the image of the Bedouin woman swings between these two poles, reality and fiction; between these two cultures (Eastern and Western), where the notions of freedom and emancipation occupy a central place. After living among the Bedouin people, immersed in their style of life and culture, Eberhardt notes that the Bedouin women are strong. Their ability to survive in an arid and difficult environment, and to maintain well-defined social roles in a community marked by nomadism and patriarchal traditions, make them guardians of tradition and symbols of beauty, mysticism, and freedom. In her stories, Eberhardt’s outlook is colored with exoticism and mystification. She depicts these women with a certain idealism, embodying a form of rebellion against the established social order. This fictional aspect sometimes takes on a form of exaggeration on the part of the author who wishes to transcend the norms of her time, as a woman dressed as a man and converted to Islam. Her vision is thus shaped as much by her personal aspirations as by her poetic and sometimes idealized interpretation of Bedouin reality

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