Tunisian Womens Writing In French

Author : Sonia Alba
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782846050
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Tunisian Women's Writing in French written by Sonia Alba and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tunisian women's literary production in French, published or set between the years 1987 and 2011 from Tunisia's second president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's rise to power to the eve of the Tunisian Revolution reveals the role of women, their political engagement, and their resistance to patriarchal oppression. A great deal of media and scholarly attention has focused on the role of women during the Tunisian Revolution itself, yet few studies have considered women's literary and active engagement prior to the uprising. By contrast, this book focuses specifically on the time period leading to the Revolution. The book is structured around three chapters, each focusing on a different form of writing and on a number of contemporary Tunisian writers who have chosen to express themselves in French. Sonia Alba explores the complex ways in which the authors have attempted to deal with those issues cultural, social and political most relevant to them. This is the first study of Tunisian women's writing in French to compare and contrast key themes in three different genres within a single study and within the conceptual framework of subaltern counterpublics. The work is enhanced by the inclusion of extracts from previously unpublished authors interviews. Tunisian Women's Writing in French is essential reading for all Francophone and Postcolonial scholars, and for scholars and students working in Contemporary Women's Writing.

Author : Sonia Alba
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782845577
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Tunisian Women's Writing in French written by Sonia Alba and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tunisian women's literary production in French, published or set between the years 1987 and 2011 from Tunisia's second president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's rise to power to the eve of the Tunisian Revolution reveals the role of women, their political engagement, and their resistance to patriarchal oppression. A great deal of media and scholarly attention has focused on the role of women during the Tunisian Revolution itself, yet few studies have considered women's literary and active engagement prior to the uprising. By contrast, this book focuses specifically on the time period leading to the Revolution. The book is structured around three chapters, each focusing on a different form of writing and on a number of contemporary Tunisian writers who have chosen to express themselves in French. Sonia Alba explores the complex ways in which the authors have attempted to deal with those issues cultural, social and political most relevant to them. This is the first study of Tunisian women's writing in French to compare and contrast key themes in three different genres within a single study and within the conceptual framework of subaltern counterpublics. The work is enhanced by the inclusion of extracts from previously unpublished authors interviews. Tunisian Women's Writing in French is essential reading for all Francophone and Postcolonial scholars, and for scholars and students working in Contemporary Women's Writing.

Author : Ghazi-Walid Falah
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572301344
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Geographies of Muslim Women written by Ghazi-Walid Falah and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume explores how Islamic discourse and practice intersect with gender relations and broader political and economic processes to shape women's geographies in a variety of regional contexts. Contributors represent a wide range of disciplinary subfields and perspectives--cultural geography, political geography, development studies, migration studies, and historical geography--yet they share a common focus on bringing issues of space and place to the forefront of analyses of Muslim women's experiences. Themes addressed include the intersections of gender, development and religion; mobility and migration; and discourse, representation, and the contestation of space. In the process, the book challenges many stereotypes and assumptions about the category of "Muslim woman," so often invoked in public debate in both traditional societies and the West.

Author : Pamela A. Pears
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739198378
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing written by Pamela A. Pears and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page—or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls what we read on the reverse—in this case, the text itself (verso). Using theories of the paratext, including those of Gérard Genette and Jonathan Gray, this book determines how four dominant iconographies used on the covers of Algerian women’s writing – Orientalist art, the veil, the desert, and the author portrait – work with and against the texts they represent. These images have an impact on the initial reception of the book, but beyond that, book covers determine how both the informed and uninformed reader categorize and interpret francophone Algerian women’s writing in France and beyond. As the covers help to sell the works, they also produce messages, represented via their iconographies that embed themselves into the texts. A sometimes explicit, and at the very least, implicit dialog between the visual paratextual representation and the written textual one is created: a dialog that extends beyond the life of the physical book to a sort of canonical paradigm for reading these authors’ works. Thus, even if the cover image appears ephemeral, it never truly disappears. Its powerful control over critical reception and, ultimately, interpretation of francophone Algerian women’s writing remains.

Author : Balghis Badri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783609109
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women's Activism in Africa written by Balghis Badri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia women have been at the forefront of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. While some of these movements have been influenced by international feminism and external donors, increasingly it is African women who are shaping the global struggle for women's rights. Bringing together African authors who themselves are part of the activist groups, this collection represents the only comprehensive and up-to-date overview of women's movements in contemporary Africa. Drawing on case studies and fresh empirical material from across the continent, the authors challenge the prevailing assumption that notions of women's rights have trickled down from the global north to the south, showing instead that these movements have been shaped by above all the unique experiences and concerns of the local women involved.

Author : Sharif Gemie
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708325416
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women's Writing and Muslim Societies written by Sharif Gemie and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.

Author : Jane D Tchaïcha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351711822
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement written by Jane D Tchaïcha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women’s rights since 2011. However, their activism and latest achievements should be considered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive local history that has included women as agents of change. This book examines Tunisian women’s lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a sociohistorical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually underpins and defines their most recent fight for gender equality in postrevolutionary Tunisia. The historic and current presentation of Tunisian women’s public and civic engagement distinguishes between different types of women’s objectives in order to examine women’s activism holistically as it evolved in the local context. The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement will be of interest to students and scholars of Tunisia, North African, and Middle East Studies and gender in the Arab world.

Author : Fawzia Zouari
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813940249
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book I Die by This Country written by Fawzia Zouari and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel available to English readers by Fawzia Zouari, one of the most important North African authors writing today, begins with an emergency crew’s arrival at a Parisian apartment. Two emaciated young women, sisters, are brought out on stretchers. To the crowd of onlookers the women’s condition is mystifying; for the two sisters, this is the inescapable end to a tragic series of events. Inspired by an actual news story from the French headlines, I Die by This Country introduces us to Nacéra and Amira. Casting her mind back in the midst of the opening pages’ upheaval, Nacéra pieces together her fragmentary knowledge of her parents’ lives in rural French Algeria and their immigration to Paris in the years following Algeria’s war for independence. Her memories of how both she and Amira struggled to find their place as children of immigrants reveals the enormous stress of social exclusion and identity conflicts facing immigrant youth. Nacéra and her family yearn for acceptance, but the reader sees this dream becoming increasingly unattainable. Zouari’s frank prose and penetrating storytelling deftly relates the multigenerational experience of Franco-Algerian immigration during the last quarter of the twentieth century. As France continues, like so many western countries, to struggle with questions regarding national identity, immigration, and its colonial past, the experiences depicted in this novel resonate more than ever.

Author : Abdelkader Cheref
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718274
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Gender and Identity in North Africa written by Abdelkader Cheref and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi society is at the very heart of the narratives. Here, Abdelkader Cheref charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides the first comparative analysis of three of the region's most prominent contemporary authors: Assia Djeba (Algeria), Leila Abouzeid (Morocco) and Souad Guellouz (Tunisia). These writers are united in their depictions of a post-independence socio-political malaise in the Maghreb; their explorations of marginalised women's voices; and, their own quests for their voices to be heard beyond the rigid constraints of patriarchy. This book is essential comparative reading for students and researchers wishing to understand the connections between literature, history and culture in postcolonial North Africa.

Author : Valérie Orlando
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739105634
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls written by Valérie Orlando and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking number of hysterical or insane female characters populate Francophone women's writing. To discover why, Orlando reads novels from a variety of cultures, teasing out key elements of Francophone identity struggles.