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Male-female relations in the literary Maghreb : poetics and politics of violence and liberation in francophone North African literature by Tahar Ben Jelloun / Shonu Nangia ; with a foreword by Louise M. Jefferson.

Title
Male-female relations in the literary Maghreb : poetics and politics of violence and liberation in francophone North African literature by Tahar Ben Jelloun / Shonu Nangia ; with a foreword by Louise M. Jefferson.
Author
Nangia, Shonu.
Publication
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2011.

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Description
ix, 183 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1947- > History and criticism
  • Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1947-
  • Ben Jelloun, Tahar 1944-
  • Ben Jelloun, Tahar
  • Homme rompu (Ben Jelloun, Tahar)
  • Man-woman relationships in literature
  • Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature
  • Literature
  • Man-woman relationships in literature
  • Französisch
  • Literatur
  • Geschlechterverhältnis Motiv
  • Frau
  • Mann
  • Bezeichnung
  • Motiv
  • Morocco > In literature
  • Africa, North > In literature
  • Afrique du Nord > Dans la littérature
  • North Africa
  • Morocco
  • Maghreb
  • Nordafrika
  • Französisches Sprachgebiet
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- Tahar Ben Jelloun -- A Critical Overview of Ben Jelloun Studies -- General studies -- Postcolonialism and intercultural relations -- Postmodernism -- Sexuality and corporeality -- Narrativity -- Maternality -- L'Homme rompu and La Nuit de l'erreur -- ch. 2 Methodological Apparatus and Theoretical Framework -- Morocco: Some Sociocultural Aspects -- Sexuality and the Subordination of the Female -- Power: An Analytical Approach -- ch. 3 L'Homme rompu: The Broken Male -- Wife as Subordinate Female: Hlima -- Paternalism, Phallocentrism and Masculine Desire -- The Other Woman: Najia -- ch. 4 La Nuit de l'erreur: Vengeance -- The Muslim Concept of Active Female Sexuality -- Zina: Her Birth and Identity -- Deconstructing Masculine Power: Three Configurations of Microlevel Power Relations -- Zina and Abid -- Zina and Bilal -- Zina and Bachar -- Zina and Salim -- ch. 5 Conclusion -- Paradox of MaleFemale Power Relations -- MaleFemale Rupture -- Symbolic Death: Mourad -- Transcendence: Zina and Salim -- Liberatory Dimensions and Prospects.
ISBN
  • 9780773414884
  • 0773414886
LCCN
2011010926
OCLC
  • 707966869
  • SCSB-12397352
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library