The other's transformational voyage and mature hybridity in the bamboo stalk

Abstract EN

Otherness is addressed with reservation in Kuwaiti literature and the other's reality is obscured.

Nevertheless, the daring nature of Saud Alsanousi's the Bamboo Stalk through which he condemns his society makes it atmospheric and unconventional.

The article is grounded upon the close reading of this narrative that gives the marginalized other a voice to speak for himself.

Our focus is laid upon the other's perception of the otherer -Kuwait.

Through the grandmother Ghanima, the author underlines class-consciousness and societal complicity in othering and excluding.

We conclude that the protagonist's search for identity results in his expulsion to the Philippines and sentences him to mature hybridity.