TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diaconoff,Suellen
TI  - Myth of the Silent Woman: Moroccan Women Writers
T2  - University of Toronto Romance Series
SN  - 9781442670129
AV  - PQ3988.5.M6.D53 2009 
U1  - 840.99287096409049 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Moroccan literature (French)-Women authors-History and criticism
KW  - Moroccan literature (French)-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Moroccan literature (French)-21st century-History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society-Morocco-History-20th century
KW  - Literature and society-Morocco-History-21st century
KW  - Women and literature-Morocco
KW  - Feminism in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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