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Author Evans, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth)

Title Tactical silence in the novels of Malika Mokeddem / Jane E. Evans.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages).
Women language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Francopolyphonies ; 9
Francopolyphonies ; 9.
Note Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of New Mexico, 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
Summary Tactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem, an inquiry into how silence may be used to challenge a gender-differentiated power system, relies on Michel de Certeau's model of strategies and tactics applied to a postcolonial assessment of both Algerian literature in French as well as Algerian women's stereotyped silence. This book analyzes the relationship between tactical silence and freedom in the lives of Mokeddem's female protagonists in all her novels, published between 1990 and 2008. The notion of deliberate silence also lends itself to a discussion of the reader's efforts in compre.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Broaching Silence; Chapter One Tactics and Strategies in Algerian Letters; Chapter Two Speaking of Silence; Chapter Three Manipulating Silence; Chapter Four Tactical Silence in Reading; Chapter Five Textual Silences and the Reader's Tactics; Conclusion The Threat of Silence; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Mokeddem, Malika -- Criticism and interpretation.
Mokeddem, Malika.
Criticism and interpretation.
Mokeddem, Malika -- Characters -- Women.
Mokeddem, Malika -- Criticism and interpretation.
Silence in literature.
Silence in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Evans, Jane Elizabeth. Tactical silence in the novels of Malika Mokeddem. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010 904203176X (OCoLC)700696875
ISBN 9789042031777 (electronic book)
9042031778 (electronic book)
904203176X
9789042031760