Abstract
This article examines how dystopic Moroccan urban societies generate a culture of fear that produces the fantasy of fleeing and how this fear sustains the dynamic acts of nomadism. It deploys postcolonial utopianism and psycholinguistics to study how Ben Jelloun’s ‘postmodern nomads’ and exilic subjects negotiate the spaces of fear in Labyrinthe des sentiments and Partir. The essay goes further to show how these psychosocially alienated characters use attitudinal lexemes to indexicate the fearful episodic memories of their original and foster loci. In both novels, repressed fear remains an essential catalysing element for the psycholinguistic construction of the utopian imagination for the desired spaces of Europe. Social dreaming is, nevertheless, the cord that binds illusion with reality and transforms the postcolonial subject’s fear into faith for a better tomorrow. The study concludes that Ben Jelloun’s migrant writing illustrates migrant and exilic subjects who negotiate all spaces of fear that are gendered, transcultural and transnational.
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