Colonial Opposition and Gender Emancipation in Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World (1962) and Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love (1999)
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2021-10
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
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This dissertation is a comparative study of the forms of resistance manifested in Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World (1962) and Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love (1999). It has examined the ways in which the two authors have subverted colonial and patriarchal stereotypes about the colonised and women. Focus has been put on how both authors have provided different visions of their respective countries’ histories. For this purpose, I have relied on Chela Sandoval’s Methodology of the Oppressed (2000), as a frame theory, and supporting ideas from Ania Loomba’s Colonialism/Postcolonialism (2015). First, it has been deduced that Djebar and Soueif incorporate into their texts various ways for resisting colonial and patriarchal oppressions. On the other hand, it has been demonstrated that the authors have engaged in resisting and opposing colonial ideology and practice by subverting and speaking against it. Finally, the analysis of the two texts has revealed the authors’ stance on patriarchy and its repression of women’s rights and identities.
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30cm ; 59p.
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Cultural and Media Studies