Cheref, Abdelkader.
London New York : Tauris Academic Studies New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Part of the series Library of modern Middle East studies 94;Library of modern Middle East studies 94.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction. Scope, rationale and aims Research and methodological contexts Organization of the book — The triumph of the muzzled. Introduction A mirror of mutations and syncretisms Denouncing the postcolonial socio-political malaise The female character as an agent de rupture — The representation of the subaltern and importance of community : Leila Abouzeid’s Year of the elephant. Introduction Naissance of Year of the elephant The representation of the subaltern Leila Abouzeid’s sense of identity The community’s restorative potential Conclusion — Is every woman’s name Wound : resistance and self-fulfilment in Assia Djebar’s A sister to Scheherazade. Introduction Oppression in A sister to Scheherazade Is every woman’s name wound : defiance and self-affirmation Conclusion — Women’s life-writing : the sense of geographic, cultural and social displacement in Souad Guellouz’s La vie simple. Introduction Place and displacement Maternal linkages and female solidarity Class, society and archaism The difficulty of developing a positive self-image Expressing the self Conclusion.

Subjects:

• Djebar, Assia, 1936- — Criticism and interpretation.
• Abū Zayd, Laylá, 1950- — Criticism and interpretation.
• Guellouz, Soûad, 1937- — Criticism and interpretation.
• North African literature — Women authors — History and criticism.
• Postcolonialism in literature.
• Feminism in literature.

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