Representing Algerian Women: Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar - Mimesis - Edward John Still - Books - De Gruyter - 9783110736410 - December 7, 2020
In case cover and title do not match, the title is correct

Edward John Still
Representing Algerian Women: Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar - Mimesis

Price
NZ$ 50
excl. VAT

Ordered from remote warehouse

Expected delivery Aug 3 - 13
Get notified about new Edward John Still releases

Our customers say:

14-day return policy in accordance with European consumer protection law
Top ranking on Trustpilot
Add to your iMusic wish list

Not rated yet

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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 7, 2020
ISBN13 9783110736410
Publishers De Gruyter
Pages 232
Dimensions 155 × 230 × 13 mm   ·   503 g
Language English  

More from the same publisher

See all of Edward John Still ( e.g. Paperback Book )