La Vie comme fiction : le tournant autofictionnel dans la littérature féminine du Maghreb

Journal Title: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature - Year 2016, Vol 40, Issue 40

Abstract

The twentieth century witnessed the birth of a feminine strand of autofictional writing coming from the ancient colonies, of which Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, by the francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar, and the Arabic Memory in the flesh, by the Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi, are emblematic. Whether it be in the Arabic or French language, the women writers of the Maghreb risked writing an autobiography in a culture that stresses the anonymity of women. The coming to writing for these women is often accompanied by a desire – or necessity – to revisit the collective past from a female perspective. For these women, literary writing also meant writing their stories on the palimpsest of dominant history, in order to carve their place in it. To fight the forced amnesia of historical discourse constructed by man, they must create works that give voice to the stories silenced by the totalizing male narrative. Djebar and Mosteghanemi both insist that the emancipation of women is possible only if the subaltern woman becomes subject not object of her story/history.

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Nancy Nabil Ali

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La Vie comme fiction : le tournant autofictionnel dans la littérature féminine du Maghreb

The twentieth century witnessed the birth of a feminine strand of autofictional writing coming from the ancient colonies, of which Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, by the francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar, and the...

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  • EP ID EP390402
  • DOI 10.17951/lsmll.2016.40.2.57
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Nancy Nabil Ali (2016). La Vie comme fiction : le tournant autofictionnel dans la littérature féminine du Maghreb. Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, 40(40), 57-81. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-390402