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This dissertation foregrounds discursive strategies of empowerment with regard to language, colonization and female subjugation. I analyze two contemporary, post-colonial fictional responses to French colonialism in Algeria in order to reformulate the relationship between violen…

The main contribution of this dissertation is to assess the inhibition Maghrebian characters and writers (Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar in this case) acquire which becomes self-censorship as they witness the voyeur turning them into "sex objects of consumption" and become defens…

This study presents a reading of three novels (Sherazade, Les Carnets de Sherazade, and Le Chinois vert d'Afrique) written by Leila Sebbar, an author whose works belong to Maghrebian literature written in French. Sebbar focuses the subject of her works on the North African immig…