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Myth of the Silent Woman
Moroccan Women Writers
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Suellen Diaconoff
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English
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2009
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Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation.
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Diaconoff Suellen :
Suellen Diaconoff is a professor emerita in the Department of French at Colby College.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Morocco’s New Voices: Women Writers and the Socio-Political and Cultural Landscape
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2. Mernissi and Scheherazade in Dialogue: Rereading and Acts of Subversion
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3. The Myth of the Silent Woman
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4. Transgressive Narratives
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5. A Prison Narrative: Female Memory and a Woman Called ‘Rachid’
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6. The Female Body and the Body Politic: Harem and Hammam
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7. Women and the City
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8. Scheherazade’s (Moroccan) Sisters: The Poetics of Identity and Democracy
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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