Abstract
This article offers an analytical study of Said Alloush’s novel Tasano, Son of the Sun, Damned of the Continents, a work that reimagines the experience of Mostafa Al-Azemmouri, also known as Estebanico, the first Moroccan to reach the Americas as a member of Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition to Florida in 1527. The article examines how Alloush moves beyond linear documentary writing and uses fiction to create a space of interaction between fiction and history, identity and memory, resistance to slavery and the reclamation of identity. It focuses on Al-Azemmouri’s individual experience, his resistance to slavery, the reconstruction of his Moroccan, Moorish, and African identity, and the role of his story in building collective memory.
Recommended Citation
El Idrissi, Younes
(2025)
"Mostafa Al-Azemmouri (Estebanico): Reclaiming Identity and the Construction of Collective Memory,"
Soroud: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 15.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol8/iss1/15