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Myth of the Silent Woman : Moroccan Women Writers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: University of Toronto Romance SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442670129
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myth of the Silent WomanDDC classification:
  • 840.99287096409049
LOC classification:
  • PQ3988.5.M6.D53 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Morocco's New Voices: Women Writers and the Socio-Political and Cultural Landscape -- 2 Mernissi and Scheherazade in Dialogue: Rereading and Acts of Subversion -- 3 The Myth of the Silent Woman -- 4 Transgressive Narratives -- 5 A Prison Narrative: Female Memory and a Woman Called 'Rachid' -- 6 The Female Body and the Body Politic: Harem and Hammam -- 7 Women and the City -- 8 Scheherazade's (Moroccan) Sisters: The Poetics of Identity and Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Morocco's New Voices: Women Writers and the Socio-Political and Cultural Landscape -- 2 Mernissi and Scheherazade in Dialogue: Rereading and Acts of Subversion -- 3 The Myth of the Silent Woman -- 4 Transgressive Narratives -- 5 A Prison Narrative: Female Memory and a Woman Called 'Rachid' -- 6 The Female Body and the Body Politic: Harem and Hammam -- 7 Women and the City -- 8 Scheherazade's (Moroccan) Sisters: The Poetics of Identity and Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation.

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