Representing Algerian women : Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar / Edward John Still.

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Still, Edward John, 1988- [author.]

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TextSeries: Mimesis ; Bd. 68.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783110586107
311058610X
9783110583861
3110583860

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

809.933522 23
305.420965 23

LOC classification:

PN56.5.W64 S75 2019
HQ1791.5 .S75 2019

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Avant-Propos -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Une dissymétrie s'évoque -- 2. Kateb Yacine -- Nedjma as Woman -- 3. Mohammed Dib: From one Gender to an Other -- 4. Mouloud Feraoun -- Humility in the Representation of Women? -- 5. Mouloud Mammeri -- A Dissenting Masculine Perspective -- 6. Assia Djebar -- Movements Towards Self-reflexive Representation -- 7. Conclusion -- Women's Postcolonial Representation -- 8. Bibliography -- Name Index -- Index of Theoretical Terms

Summary: This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945-1962), namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women through literature. The book initially argues that a masculine domination of public fields of representation in Algeria contributed to a postcolonial marginalization of women as public agents. However, it crucially also argues that the canonical writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually acknowledged their inability to articulate the experiences and subjectivity of the feminine Other and deployed a remarkable variety of formal and conceptual innovations in producing evocations of Algerian femininity that subvert the structural imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony. Though it does not shy from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, the book chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning representativity, a pessimism regarding the revolution's capacity to deliver change for women, and an omnipresent subversion of masculine subjectivity in its canonical texts.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945-1962), namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women through literature. The book initially argues that a masculine domination of public fields of representation in Algeria contributed to a postcolonial marginalization of women as public agents. However, it crucially also argues that the canonical writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually acknowledged their inability to articulate the experiences and subjectivity of the feminine Other and deployed a remarkable variety of formal and conceptual innovations in producing evocations of Algerian femininity that subvert the structural imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony. Though it does not shy from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, the book chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning representativity, a pessimism regarding the revolution's capacity to deliver change for women, and an omnipresent subversion of masculine subjectivity in its canonical texts.