From the Unsayable to Engineered Confession: The Sexual Taboo in Modern Arabic Fiction (1980–2015)
This article conceptualizes the “unsayable” not as a fixed prohibition but as a dynamic dispositive that structures confession across paratexts, spaces, voices, and regimes of the gaze. It proposes a replicable analytic matrix aligning a mediation axis — ellipsis → avowal → mise en scène — with a contextual vector comp...