Amor, género y orden social en El último patriarca y La cazadora de cuerpos, de Najat El Hachmi

Abstract

Discourse practices of love always enhance cultural meanings and social values. Every single love discourse, every version or interpretation of affective experiences can solely exist and be decoded within a specific cultural framework as  it is connected with other socio-ideological narratives generated by a given culture. This article aims at analyzing el último patriarca (2008) and La cazadora de cuerpos (2011), two novels written by the catalan writer najat El hachmi as one story highlighting the evolution of the concepts of love, sexuality and mar- riage in Western culture. Thus, the novels not only complement one another by focusing on the questions of identity, gender, body and love, but also re-write the history of those concepts, their mythification and demythification.