Abstract
This article examines how Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account revisits the story of Moroccan traveler Mustafa Al-Azmouri by following the development of his character and his interaction with the events of the novel. It highlights the novel's attempt to reveal the contradictions of Western colonial discourse by positioning Al-Azmouri as a recorder of Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition, free from the political and social constraints that shaped the official account. The article also studies individual and collective memory and the struggle over narrative authority between the margins and the center.
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El Housayny, Driss
(2025)
"The Subaltern and the Decolonisation of Colonial Discourse: A Study of Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account,"
Soroud: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol8/iss1/12