Gender and Identity in North Africa

Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature

by Cheref, Abdelkader

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Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi society is at the very heart of the narratives. Here, Abdelkader Cheref charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides the first comparative analysis of three of the region's most prominent contemporary authors: Assia Djeba (Algeria), Leila Abouzeid (Morocco) and Souad Guellouz (Tunisia). These…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Gender and Identity in North Africa : Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature.

Summary

Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi society is at the very heart of the narratives. Here, Abdelkader Cheref charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides the first comparative analysis of three of the region's most prominent contemporary authors: Assia Djeba (Algeria), Leila Abouzeid (Morocco) and Souad Guellouz (Tunisia). These writers are united in their depictions of a post-independence socio-political malaise in the Maghreb.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris & Co
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780857718273, 0857718274
  • oclc:ocn710975567
  • LC Classification:PL8014 .A355 C44 2010
  • Dewey Decimal:809.892870961

Table of Contents

Note on transliteration; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Triumph of the Muzzled; 2. The Representation of the Subaltern and Importance of Community: Leila Abouzeid's Year of the Elephant; 3. Is Every Woman's name 'Wound'? Resistance and Self-Fulfilment in Assia Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade; 4. Women's Life-Writing: The sense of Geographic, Cultural and Social Displacement in Souad Guellouz's La Vie Simple; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

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Subjects

Abū Zayd, Laylá Criticism, interpretation, etc Djebar, Assia Electronic books Feminism in literature Féminisme dans la littérature Guellouz, Soûad North African literature -- Women autho… Postcolonialism in literature Postcolonialisme dans la littérature

Writers

Cheref, Abdelkader

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