Il Tolomeo Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales | Revista de estudos pós-coloniais

Rivista | Il Tolomeo
Fascicolo monografico | 22 | 2020
Articolo | Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes

Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes

Entre réécriture de l’Histoire et invention de soi

Abstract

The study of Maïssa Bey’s novel Surtout ne te retourne pas allows to examine how the Francophone novel represents an earthquake as a poetic, metaphorical and political shockwave. The novel is part of a literary tradition but also shows the singularity of the writing and the engagement of the Algerian novelist Maïssa Bey. It allows to examine the feminine agentivity in the context of the disaster camps in Algeria: from the ravaged space/country emerge the voices of women who enter into resistance to improvise, invent their lives and their identities. The earthquake allows them to free themselves, to take a subversive point of view at society and their status as women in an oppressive patriarchal society. The staged female characters arrogate to themselves the right to reread history and take their destiny back.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 11 Aprile 2020 | Accettato: 19 Giugno 2020 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua: fr

Keywords Postcolonial theory • Maghreb Francophone Literature • Women’s Literature • Poetics and engagement • Agency

Copyright © 2020 Lila Lamrous. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2020/22/025


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