L’Exil du Féminin dans Syngué Sabour, Pierre de Patience d’Atiq Rahimi

Abstract

The writer Atiq Rahimi draws up in his novel Syngué Sabour Pierre de patience, a striking portrait of an Afghan woman who undergoes a painful exile of herself and of the Other, because of the despotic prohibitions governed by a phallocratic society in power. In this regard, we will reflect in this article on some scriptural processes used in Syngué Sabour Pierre de Patience in order to show how Atiq Rahimi proceeded to write the female exile. First, we will see how the instrumentalization of onomastic induces a denunciatory discourse on the condition of women in Afghanistan. Then we turn our attention to the body as a place revealing an exercise of implacable phallocratic power towards a female aspiring to disclosure and freedom.