Transfigurations of the Maghreb
Subtitle: feminism, decolonization, and literatures
By: Winifred Woodhull.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: North African literature (French) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- Africa, North.; Women and literature -- Africa, North.; Decolonization in literature.; Colonies in literature.; Africa, North -- In literature.
Description: Recent years have seen growing interest in the politics, history, and literature of the postcolonial world. In the case of the Maghreb, scholars have examined the consequences of decolonization for both North Africans and Maghrebian immigrant communities now living in France, and international attention is currently focused on the rise of fundamentalism in Algeria and the implications of this for France and Algeria's domestic and foreign policies. Transfigurations of the Maghreb, which emphasizes the intersections of literature and politics, the local and the global, is at once a timely addition to contemporary debates about the Maghreb and a valuable contribution to the field of postcolonial studies in general. Transfigurations of the Maghreb addresses the question of gender in the context of postcolonial studies by examining the ways in which gender is inscribed in texts written about the Maghreb since the 1950s by both French and Maghrebian authors. -- from http://www.jstor.org (June 23, 2014).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-227) and index.