Nomadism as a Carnivalesque Mirage
by
Lynda Chouiten
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
As a woman who traversed the North African Orient in male costume, who spoke Arabic as well as French, and who professed Islam while transgressing many of its instructions, Isabelle Eberhardt seems to fit within Mikhail Bakhtin’s definition of the carnivalesque as the impulse to blend that which...