Overview

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its conflation with testimony and its expansion beyond literary texts. The book analyzes life narratives in Arabic, colloquial Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media. The various case studies highlight narrative strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization, while engaging patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices. Using a transdisciplinary interpretative lens, the analyses focus on how women authors, artists, and activists collapse the boundaries between autobiography, biography, testimony, and sociopolitical commentary to revise dominant conventions of authorship, transgress oppressive definitions of gender roles and relations, and envision change. Revisionary Narratives marks auto/biography and testimony as a specific field of inquiry within the study of women’s postcolonial cultural productions in the Moroccan and, more broadly, the Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts.

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Author:   Naïma Hachad
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   64
ISBN:  

9781789620221

ISBN 10:   1789620228
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Moroccan Women’s Auto/biographical and Testimonial Acts in Context Chapter 1: The Rise of a Feminist Consciousness in Saïda Menebhi’s Prison Writings Chapter 2: (Re)writing the Woman Resister: Violence, Gender, and Legitimacy in Fatna El Bouih and Malika Oufkir’s Testimonies Chapter 3: Speaking for the Voiceless: Political and Ethical Considerations of Moroccan Women’s ‘Collective Testimonial Self’ Chapter 4: Visual, Cultural, and Geopolitical Thresholds in Lalla Essaydi’s Depiction of Moroccan Women Chapter 5: Carolle Bénitah’s Photo-Embroidery: Remembering, Reframing, Disfiguring, and Embellishing the Past Chapter 6: Modes of Feminine Resistance and Testimony in the Wake of the Mudawana reform and the Arab Uprisings: Contemporary Discourses of Contestation in Naïma Zitan’s play Daily and Fedwa Misk’s Webzine Qandisha Conclusion: The Future of Moroccan Women’s Auto/biography and Testimony Bibliography

Reviews

'This book's central focus on auto/biography and testimony in works of cultural production by women of Morocco makes a valuable contribution to recent scholarship in life writing/life narratives critically departing from the mostly male-centred repertoire of the sovereign subject. By including photographic and accompanying artistic practices, Hachad extends the field of auto/biographical studies beyond the preoccupation with writing. Norman Saadi Nikro, University of Potsdam Reviews `This work presents an original study and critique of current cultural production by Moroccan women as a response to the repressive Lead Years.' Valerie K. Orlando, University of Maryland

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Naïma Hachad is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at American University.

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