Myth of the Silent Woman : : Moroccan Women Writers /

Myth of the Silent Woman : : Moroccan Women Writers / / Suellen Diaconoff.

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Beginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle Eastern women to break their silence by writing both fiction and non-fiction. The Myth of the Silent Woman examines representative French-language tex...

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Diaconoff, Suellen,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:University of Toronto Romance Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Morocco's New Voices: Women Writers and the Socio-Political and Cultural Landscape
  • 2. Mernissi and Scheherazade in Dialogue: Rereading and Acts of Subversion
  • 3. The Myth of the Silent Woman
  • 4. Transgressive Narratives
  • 5. A Prison Narrative: Female Memory and a Woman Called 'Rachid'
  • 6. The Female Body and the Body Politic: Harem and Hammam
  • 7. Women and the City
  • 8. Scheherazade's (Moroccan) Sisters: The Poetics of Identity and Democracy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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