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Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014624897
The story of how Isma and Hajila, wives of the same man, escape from the traditional restraints imposed upon the women of their country.
Author : Ranjana Khanna
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804752613
Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and theoretical and philosophical texts concerning the relationship between France and Algeria. Khanna investigates gendered representation, identification, and justice, and in the process, calls into question the ways in which conventional disciplinary frameworks foreclose certain avenues of reflection while foregrounding others. Algeria Cuts seeks to understand Algeria and Algerian women as a philosophical site that facilitates an understanding of justice and the pursuit of feminism.
Author : Nada Elia
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0815338430
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Marilyn Jurich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313069796
Based on the author's discovery of a new folktale type, the female trickster, Jurich's book identifies and celebrates those female protagonists in folktales who use trickery to save themselves and others, to find new directions for their lives, and to declare their individual autonomies, especially in societies that diminish and oppress women. Through creative strategies depending on verbal facility, psychological acuity, and diplomatic know-how, these women tricksters—better named trickstars—uncover the absurdity, hypocrisy, and corruption in the larger patriarchal society. Through the trickstar's efforts, the system is circumvented or foiled, often enlightened, and usually improved. This multicultural, comparative study reveals universal human traits as well as gender differences between female and male tricksters and realizes the values and attitudes which shape the trickstar's character and behavior. Trickstars also appear outside of the oral folktale tradition; the author discusses their roles in contemporary feminist revisionist tales, as well as in mythology, biblical narratives, Shakespearean comedy, novels, plays, and opera. How the female trickster differs from her male counterpart is, for the first time in folklore studies, illustrated through a comparison of their functions in the narrative scheme of the tale. These functions include the diverting or amusing role, the morally ambiguous or reprehensible role, the role of the manipulator or strategist, and the role of the transformer or culture bringer who reforms and improves the nature of her society. Jurich delineates the specific types of tricksters who perform these functions, suggests how trickstar tales variously affect listeners and readers, and shows how particular types of trickstar characters contribute to the intent of the tale. Feminist views of the protagonists are analyzed as well as contemporary revisionist tales which seek to reverse negative female images and to present independent women characters who can and do make positive contributions to society. For the first time in folklore studies, both female and male tricksters are defined and differentiated, their functions are illustrated through analyzing narrative schemes, and the term trickstar, invented by the author, is used to define and describe a female trickster.
Author : Abdelkader Cheref
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857718273
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 : Joan Friday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798721057540
Two sisters, two kings, and an ancient kingdom in the balance. Each one's fate depends on a story. Are the sisters strong enough to endure palace intrigue, betrayal, and the king's bitterness? Each day may be their last as each night Scheherazade weaves a tale which doesn't end. But even that may not be enough if the phoenix doesn't return. Will they be able to soften the king's heart in time - or will their plan crumble like the kingdom around them? My Sister, My Soul is written with a prelude, four movements, an intermezzo, and a coda to remind readers of Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral piece, Scheherazade.
Author : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433100894
Women, especially leaders, holding tête-à-têtes with men to address political impasses have been recognized as shrewd, double headed, or witchlike distinctions that link them with juju or extraordinary, survivalist powers. Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between is a theoretical and analytical book on African women writers that focuses on seven representative novels from different parts of Africa: Bessie Head's Maru (South Africa/Botswana); Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero (Egypt); Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint and Changes (Ghana); Assia Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade (Algeria); Calixthe Beyala's The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me (Cameroon); and Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (Zimbabwe). In her analysis, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi demonstrates how women are viewed and how they operate in critical times. Ogunyemi explains how the heritage is passed on, in spite of dire situations emanating from colonialism, postcolonialism, ethnicism, sexism, and grinding poverty. An important contribution to many fields, Juju Fission is excellent background material for courses on African studies, women's studies, African Diaspora studies, black studies, global studies, and general literature studies.
Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009131009
The story of how Isma and Hajila, wives of the same man, escape from the traditional restraints imposed upon the women of their country.
Author : Feroza Jussawalla,Doaa Omran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000367362
Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic representation. Muslim Women Writers from the Middle East from Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah (1899–1968) and Latifa al-Zayat (1923–1996) from Egypt, to current diasporic writers such as Tamara Chalabi from Iraq, Mohja Kahf from Syria, and even trendy writers such as Alexandra Chreiteh, challenge the received notion of Middle Eastern women as subjugated and secluded. The younger largely Muslim women scholars collected in this book present cutting edge theoretical perspectives on these Muslim women writers. This book includes essays from the conflict-ridden countries such as Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and the resultant diaspora. The strengths of Muslim women writers are captured by the scholars included herein. The approach is feminist, post-colonial, and disruptive of Western stereotypical academic tropes.
Author : Theo D'haen,David Damrosch,Djelal Kadir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136655753
In the age of globalization, the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field. Separated into four key sections, the volume covers: the history of World Literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said, Casanova and Moretti the disciplinary relationship of World Literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization and diaspora studies theoretical issues in World Literature including gender, politics and ethics a global perspective on the politics of World Literature. The forty-eight outstanding contributors to this companion offer an ideal introduction to those approaching the field for the first time, or looking to further their knowledge of this extensive field.
Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029248294
Assia Djebar is also the author of several novels and a play. Her novel Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade won the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize and she has written and directed two feature-length films: La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, which won first prize at the Venice Festival, and La zerda et les chants de l'oubli. Djebar is director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University. Marjolijn de Jager has published numerous translations of literary works. Clarisse Zimra is Associate Professor of English in Modern Literary Theory and Criticism and Comparative Literature at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Author : Gordon Thompson
Publisher : Clouds of Magellan
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780645193541
'While her younger sister was gifted in telling tales, Scheherazade couldn't tell a story to save her life...' Scheherazade and the Amber Necklace is a bold reimagining of the classic Tales of the Arabian Nights, with flying carpets, despotic rulers, secret assassins, and powerful djinns. When her sister is forced to marry the king, and her father imprisoned, Scheherazade must make a desperate journey to the Zagros Mountains to find a story that might save all their lives.
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974711
The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.
Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107126084
This book offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, it traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection of feminist theoretical production to literary work.
Author : Joann Leonard
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874400392