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Transfigurations of the Maghreb : feminism, decolonization, and literatures / Winifred Woodhull.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodhull, Winifred, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies in literature.
- Decolonization in literature.
- Feminism and literature--Africa, North.
- Feminism and literature.
- North African literature (French)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- North African literature (French).
- Women and literature--Africa, North.
- Women and literature.
- Africa, North--In literature.
- Africa, North.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 233 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through readings of some of the best-known texts in Algerian literature in French, Woodhull both challenges the separation between French and Francophone literatures and cultures in the academy and explores the ways in which "femininity" has been represented in the texts of North African and French writers since the mid-1950s.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Recasting the Colonial Gaze; 2 Wild Femininity and Historical Countermemory; 3 Exile; 4 Out of France; Conclusion; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8426-X
- OCLC:
- 476093351
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