Representing Algerian Women: Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar

Edward John Still

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Representing Algerian Women

Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar

Edward John Still

Volume 68 in the series Mimesis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586107

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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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Edward John Still, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Avant-Propos Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1. Introduction – Une dissymétrie s’évoque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Kateb Yacine – Nedjma as Woman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Mohammed Dib: From one Gender to an Other Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
4. Mouloud Feraoun – Humility in the Representation of Women? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5. Mouloud Mammeri – A Dissenting Masculine Perspective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
6. Assia Djebar – Movements Towards Self-reflexive Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
7. Conclusion – Women’s Postcolonial Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
8. Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index of Theoretical Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Postcolonial Studies, Women’s Studies, North African Studies, Sociology, History, Psychoanalysis, Literature).
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 222
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Algeria; Women; Late-colonial Era; Representation

eBook

Published: January 14, 2019
ISBN: 9783110586107

Hardcover

Published: January 14, 2019
ISBN: 9783110583700

Paperback

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110736410