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Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women's Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts

Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women's Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts

Hachad, Naïma

Paperback

Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, Book 64

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 180207743X
ISBN13: 9781802077438
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 1 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women's auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its conflation with testimony and its expansion beyond literary texts. The book analyzes life narratives in Arabic, colloquial Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media. The various case studies highlight narrative strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization, while engaging patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices. Using a transdisciplinary interpretative lens, the analyses focus on how women authors, artists, and activists collapse the boundaries between autobiography, biography, testimony, and sociopolitical commentary to revise dominant conventions of authorship, transgress oppressive definitions of gender roles and relations, and envision change.

Revisionary Narratives marks auto/biography and testimony as a specific field of inquiry within the study of women's postcolonial cultural productions in the Moroccan and, more broadly, the Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts.

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