Violent Wives and Liberated Husbands: Male- Female Relations in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L’Homme rompu
Violent Wives and Liberated Husbands: Male- Female Relations in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L’Homme rompu

Summary/Abstract: This article examines “tormented” male-female relations in Francophone writer Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L’Homme rompu and focuses on violence and mysticism. The question of male-female estrangement is inscribed within a husband-wife dialectic that is characterized in particular by the aggression of the wife in the role of the subordinate female. While it is unarguable that Ben Jelloun denounces the societal subordination and victimization of the female, L’Homme rompu in particular represents/reveals the existential impact of the disharmony in male-female relations that is felt by the male.

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