Tra critica sociale ed erotismo, un esempio della nuova narrativa siriana : Ḥurrās al-hawā' di Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan

The aim of this article is to show the importance of the narration of the female body in women contemporary Syrian novel. As an example, I will use the novel Ḥurrās al-hawā' (The guardians of the air), written by the young Syrian writer, Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan, published in 2009. This novel is notably interesting in order to describe this new trend. In fact, although it is presented as a critical work against the autocratic regime in Syria, we discover that also the erotic component is a pivotal element. Finally, I remark that the body is the centre of the plot and affects all the characters’ world. We may conclude that the author uses the social and political criticism as a means to express and represent the dimensions of the body which in the text are many: sex, pregnancy, illness, death, physiological functions and torture.