Representing Algerian women : Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar / Edward John Still.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Still, Edward John, 1988- author.

Series:

Mimesis ; 0178-7489 Bd. 68.

Mimesis, 0178-7489 ; Band 68

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Algerian literature (French)--20th century--History and criticism.

Algerian literature (French).

Physical Description:

vi, 222 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

Text in English with extracts in French.

Contents:

1 Introduction - Une dissymétrie s'évoque p. 1

2 Kateb Yacine - Nedjma as Woman p. 17

2.1 Painful Beginnings p. 19

2.2 Mythical Interpretations p. 25

2.3 Masculine Perspectives on the Feminine Image: Desiring Objects p. 33

2.4 Rivalrous Relations p. 40

2.5 National Possibilities p. 45

2.6 Fragile Emancipation and Pessimistic Representation p. 51

3 Mohammed Dib: From one Gender to an Other p. 60

3.1 Realist Plenitude and the Coming Revolution p. 62

3.2 Feminine Voices, Articulating Change p. 74

3.3 Gendered Frontiers p. 81

3.4 Maternal Melancholy p. 84

3.5 For whom the Texts? p. 95

4 Mouloud Feraoun - Humility in the Representation of Women? p. 100

4.1 Masculinist Structures and Women's Participation p. 102

4.2 Breaking the Chain p. 112

4.3 Cacophonous Narration p. 123

4.4 Ventriloquism, Factitiousness, and Failure p. 129

5 Mouloud Mammeri - A Dissenting Masculine Perspective p. 135

5.1 Kabyle Sociology, Masculinist Structures, and Women's Suffering p. 137

5.2 Lévi-Strauss, Matrimonial Strife, and Positive Change p. 143

5.3 Masculine Blindness, Perspective and Scopophilia p. 149

5.4 Supplements, Activity, and Pessimistic Uncertainty p. 157

6 Assia Djebar - Movements Towards Self-reflexive Representation p. 167

6.1 A Representative Scribe? p. 172

6.2 Socio-historical Progression? p. 177

6.3 Psychic/Subjective Progression and Emancipatory Learning p. 183

6.4 Shattered Mirrors -188

6.5 Ideological Evolution p. 193

7 Conclusion - Women's Postcolonial Representation p. 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and indexes.

ISBN:

3110583704

9783110583700

OCLC:

1014138029