In a novel titled for one of these places, the musicologist Isma takes up filmmaking after her husband beats her for having an affair. A dove is cared for by a man in one of these places who dreams of touching the Kaaba’s black stone and retells the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire. A woman in one of these places recounts taking 3,000 dollars from an Arab prince for sex and ripping it to shreds. Testimony given in these places inspired Tahar Ben Jelloun’s (“TAH-her ben zhuh-LOON’s”) This Blinding Absence of Light and a novel framed as a psychiatrist’s interview with the ex-prostitute Firdaus (“feer-DAOSS”), Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero. While in one of these places, an apathetic man angrily rejects a chaplain’s graces in favor of opening to “the gentle indifference of the world.” For 10 points, Meursault (“mer-SOH”) spends most of the last part of The Stranger in what sort of place? ■END■
ANSWER: prisons [or jails; accept prison cells; accept So Vast the Prison or Vaste est la prison] (The first novel is So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar. The Stranger is by Albert Camus.)
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