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UNSPECIFIED (2004) Feminism and the question of "woman" in Assia Djebar's 'Vaste est la prison'. RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, 35 (4). pp. 91-104.
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This article analyzes the Algerian writer Assia Djebar's uncertain and ambiguous relationship with feminism. While her work is clearly preoccupied with women's experiences, the notion of a collective feminine identity remains a subject of contention, and female characters are frequently presented as both singular and elusive. In Vaste est la prison, the author sets out to trace a coherent genealogy of Algerian women, but the narrative at once hints at and disrupts any clear linking threads. For this reason, I argue that feminist resistance for Djebar revolves not around the uncomplicated celebration of female solidarity, but around a continual shifting between collective and singular critique. Women's resistance to patriarchal oppression in Algeria consists of a continual process of convergence and divergence. Djebar does not propose a single feminist argument but charts instead the very difficult process of creating a shared concrete cause.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES | ||||
| Publisher: | INDIANA UNIV PRESS | ||||
| ISSN: | 0034-5210 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2004 | ||||
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| Volume: | 35 | ||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 91-104 | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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