Abstract
This article asks whether narrating the story of Estevanico of Azemmour is a way of reconnecting with a lost time in which the Moroccan explorer was buried in oblivion and ignorance. Hamza Bendriss Ottmani’s The Son of the Sun is presented as a travel narrative about a figure who marked the age of the Great Discoveries but did not receive the recognition granted to explorers such as Christopher Columbus or Marco Polo. By placing Estevanico alongside mythical heroes such as Ulysses and Hercules, the narrative transforms his unusual destiny into a shared legend, giving the story an epic dimension in which suffering becomes a celebration of a hero whose struggle for existence leads toward recognition.
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Benmbarek, Said
(2025)
"Estevanico or the Myth of Recognition,"
Soroud: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol8/iss1/11