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Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman

Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman

Abouzeid, Leila
Abouzeid, Leila
Taylor, Heather Logan

Paperback

Series: Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

ISBN10: 0292704909
ISBN13: 9780292704909
Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
Published: Jan 1 1999
Pages: 167
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.53
Language: English

Leila Abouzeid, whose novel Year of the Elephant has gone through six reprintings, has now translated her childhood memoir into English. Published in Rabat in 1993 to critical acclaim, the work brings to life the interlocking dramas of family ties and political conflict.

Against a background of Morocco's struggle for independence from French colonial rule, Abouzeid charts the development of personal relationships, between generations as well as between husbands and wives. Abouzeid's father is a central figure; as a strong advocate of Moroccan nationalism, he was frequently imprisoned by the French and his family forced to flee the capital. Si Hmed was a public hero, but the young daughter's memories of her famous father and of the family's plight because of his political activities are not so idyllic.

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