Naslov
Postcoloniality and Otherness in Assia Djebar’s fiction

Autori
Sindičić Sabljo, Mirna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences, The Issue of the (Post) Other: Postmodernism and Other

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 10.09.2010. - 12.09.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
frankofone književnosti; orijentalizam; drugost; kolonijalni diskurs
(francophone literature; orientalism; otherness; colonial discourse)

Sažetak
Francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar in her novels, part of the Algerian Quartet, deals with the complexities of identity, culture, gender and postcolonial experience. As Edward Said has shown in his book Orientalism, Algerians were erased from the history written by French colonizers, women especially. They were excluded both from the social life and from the discursive trace of the colonial encounter. Djebar introduces new perspectives on Algeria’s colonial history and brings new interpretations of it because she includes the Algerian women in their own history. The novelist explores French colonial archives in order to rewrite the history of France's colonization of Algeria by reintroducing women into the pages of history. For example, in L'amour, la fantasia, Djebar juxtaposes women's oral history of the Algerian war with historical accounts of the conquest of Algeria taken from French archives. Djebar also challenges the Muslim patriarch's dominating gaze so as to empower Algerian women and restore their subjectivity. In her novels, Assia Djebar allows the other’s other, the silenced Arab women to speak for themselves.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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