Forms and Acts of Resistance in Amin Maalouf’s Leo the African

This article, which is entitled ‘Forms and Acts of Resistance in Amin Maalouf’s Leo the African’, about problematic power resistance a novel set Islamic Spain. The idea behind this paper that relations, albeit lopsided, are not absolute but fluid. Not to mention it unilateral as commonly thought but--multilateral. Indeed, setting Moorish informed by religious cultural tensions Spanish Inquisition Crescent Christendom relation power. It talks an era prior epistemic physical aggression on culture 1492 failure Moor-Spaniard capitulación convivencia. But since figure immensely text, analysis problematizes relationship following approach Foucauldian post-modern, positive conception object treated fiction, underlying methods content analysis. thesis concludes fractured from within other discourses. Besides, problem part what called centripetal centrifugal dynamics: Power oscillates between two contending blocs is, therefore, never static; these potion, cocktail mix.