Waiting for Fatima to become Sophie. The time of waiting in al-Kafira by 'Ali Badr

Abstract

The analysis here is focused on “waiting” as the time of narration in the novel Al-kāfira by ‘Alī Badr and as a means of denouncing the misogynist mentality imposed by the mutašaddidīn musallaḥīn who control the village where Fāṭima-Sophie spent her childhood and adolescence. In this climate of political repression and social oppression, the literary representation of waiting becomes a metaphor for an existential condition and an identity that is both individual and collective.