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Tunisian women`s writing in French : the fight for emancipation : from Ben Ali's rise to power to the eve of the Tunisian Revolution, 1987-2011
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Tunisian women`s writing in French : the fight for emancipation : from Ben Ali's rise to power to the eve of the Tunisian Revolution, 1987-2011 / Sonia Alba.
ISBN
9781845199395
1845199391
Publication
Eastbourne ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2019.
Physical Description
vi, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
The "Arab world" and the perserverance of stereotypes
Tunisia: overview
Why literature and why women's literature?
On language
On exile
On counterpublic theory
Authorial intention and the defence of anonymity
Shame and punishment in the autobiographical novel la retournée by Fawzia Zouari and in the novel Leïla ou la femme de l'aube by Sonia Chamkhi
Biographical information, synopsis of texts and narrative voices
The protagonists' "retournement" shame 55
The protagonists' "retournement" punishment
The contribution to a subaltern counterpublic in Tunisia by Zouari and Chamkhi
Not literature, only "almost" literature: essay writing in Une force qui demeure by Hélé Béji and in Les arabes, les femmes, la liberté by Sophie Bessis
Unsettling the modernity vs. tradition debate
The challenging of persistent traditional gender norms by Béji and Bessis
The contribution to a subaltern counterpublic in Tunisia by Béji and Bessis
The personal is political: old adage, new media. blog writing in a Tunisian girl by Lina ben Mhenni and in Nadia from Tunis by "Nadia"
Definition of genre: the blog or modern day diary
The intimate dimension of blog writing
The political dimension of blog writing
The contribution to a subaltern counterpublic in Tunisia by Ben Mhenni and Nadia
Conclusion.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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