Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature by Cheref, Abdelkader

Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848854499)

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Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature by Cheref, Abdelkader

Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature

$160.00
Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature by Cheref, Abdelkader

Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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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: Abdelkader Cheref
ISBN-10: 1848854498
ISBN-13: 9781848854499
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00d

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Choice 07/01/2011
By Abdelkader Cheref
By Abdelkader Cheref
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Abdelkader Cheref is an Algerian academic who was educated in Algeria, the UK and the US. He started his PhD in Comparative Literature as a Fulbright grantee at the University of Texas at Austin, and completed it at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He has worked as Lecturer in African-American and Maghrebi Literatures in Algeria and in Dubai. He is currently Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Limerick in Ireland. His research interests are in comparative Anglophone, Arabophone and Francophone postcolonial literatures, cultural traditions, gender and the intersection of the 'public' and the 'personal'.

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