TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diaconoff,Suellen
TI  - Myth of the Silent Woman: Moroccan Women Writers 
T2  - University of Toronto Romance Series
SN  - 9781442640054
AV  - PQ3988.5.M6 ǂb D52 2009eb D52 2009eb
U1  - 840.9/9287096409049 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Morocco
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Moroccan literature (French)
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / African
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Beginning 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
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