LEADER 04465nam 2200841 450 001 9910458626603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-7012-6 010 $a1-4426-9745-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442670129 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054265 035 $a(EBL)4671123 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486059 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12230246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486059 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429782 035 $a(PQKB)11115902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671123 035 $a(CEL)433593 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272734 035 $a(DE-B1597)464006 035 $a(OCoLC)944178588 035 $a(OCoLC)999354707 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442670129 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671123 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256849 035 $a(OCoLC)958565213 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054265 100 $a20160921h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe myth of the silent woman $eMoroccan women writers /$fSuellen Diaconoff 205 $a2nd ed. 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 0 $aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4426-4005-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Morocco's New Voices: Women Writers and the Socio-Political and Cultural Landscape -- $t2. Mernissi and Scheherazade in Dialogue: Rereading and Acts of Subversion -- $t3. The Myth of the Silent Woman -- $t4. Transgressive Narratives -- $t5. A Prison Narrative: Female Memory and a Woman Called 'Rachid' -- $t6. The Female Body and the Body Politic: Harem and Hammam -- $t7. Women and the City -- $t8. Scheherazade's (Moroccan) Sisters: The Poetics of Identity and Democracy -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBeginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle Eastern women to break their silence by writing both fiction and non-fiction. The Myth of the Silent Woman examines representative French-language texts from Moroccan women writers. Suellen Diaconoff situates these works in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation. In novels and short stories, essays and memoirs, including one powerful text by a dissident and former political prisoner, these authors contest hegemonic systems of thought and practice, reappraise traditional spaces and limits, shatter taboos and transgress borders. In so doing, they profoundly undermine easy assumptions about Arab women, feminism, and democracy, while boldly challenging the stereotype of the silent woman. 410 0$aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series 606 $aMoroccan literature (French)$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMoroccan literature (French)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMoroccan literature (French)$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zMorocco$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zMorocco$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aWomen and literature$zMorocco 606 $aFeminism in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMoroccan literature (French)$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMoroccan literature (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMoroccan literature (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aFeminism in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a840.9/9287096409049 700 $aDiaconoff$b Suellen$0910053 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458626603321 996 $aThe myth of the silent woman$92036842 997 $aUNINA