Constructing a room of her own: woman outside the binaries in Ghalem's A wife for my son

Abstract

This essay explores the concept of the ‘constructed habitation’: a space that is constructed, sometimes physically, sometimes abstractly, by the author, in concert with the characters who will inhabit it. In Ali Ghalem's Algerian novel, A wife for my son, Bhabha's discussion of liminality applies to each of Ghalem's characters.