THE EXILED BODY: A SEMIOTIC READING OF MARX AND THE DOLL BY MARYAM MADJIDI

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French department Faculty of Arts Damietta University

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Marx and the Doll is a novel of emigration written by the Iranian Maryam Madjidi. It tells the identity journey of a narrator named Maryam who lives her first years in Iran before settling permanently in France with her family where she initially has difficulty integrating into French society and culture. It is only at the end of the novel that she is able to achieve the synthesis between her culture of origin and French culture. But what makes the novel specific is the fact that the perceiving body of the narrator seems to be the essential operator who first experiences exile, lives it and semiotizes it. It is therefore by studying the semiotics of the exiled body that we could thus arrive at identifying the semiotic universe of exile as it appears in the novel. The figurative manifestations of the body would also allow us to approach the forms of life that characterize the exiled body.

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