Myth of the Silent Woman
Suellen Diaconoff
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Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Beginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle Eastern women to break their silence by writing both fiction and non-fiction. The Myth of the Silent Woman examines representative French-language texts from Moroccan women writers. Suellen Diaconoff situates these works in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation.
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Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
University of Toronto Romance Series
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442640054
SKU
V9781442640054
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About Suellen Diaconoff
Suellen Diaconoff is a professor emerita in the Department of French at Colby College.
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