A01=Abdelkader Cheref
Author_Abdelkader Cheref
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- ISBN 9781848854499
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi society is at the very heart of the narratives. Here, Abdelkader Cheref charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides the first comparative analysis of three of the region's most prominent contemporary authors: Assia Djeba (Algeria), Leila Abouzeid (Morocco) and Souad Guellouz (Tunisia). These writers are united in their depictions of a post-independence socio-political malaise in the Maghreb; their explorations of marginalised women's voices; and, their own quests for their voices to be heard beyond the rigid constraints of patriarchy. This book is essential comparative reading for students and researchers wishing to understand the connections between literature, history and culture in postcolonial North Africa.
Abdelkader Cheref is an Algerian academic who was educated in Algeria, the UK and the US. He started his PhD in Comparative Literature as a Fulbright grantee at the University of Texas at Austin, and completed it at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He has worked as Lecturer in African-American and Maghrebi Literatures in Algeria and in Dubai. He is currently Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Limerick in Ireland. His research interests are in comparative Anglophone, Arabophone and Francophone postcolonial literatures, cultural traditions, gender and the intersection of the 'public' and the 'personal'.
