Re-visualising Beur identity in Sebbar's trilogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Kaplan (0000-0003-1090-9173, Fordham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 27-46 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629380108718449 |
| OpenAlex | W2051367313 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In the novels of the Maghribian francophone author, Leila Sebbar, the voices of Beur ‐ the second‐generation Magrhibian born (or brought up) in France ‐ and immigrant women are given centre stage in her work to draw attention to the problems of pictorial and literary traditions of European Orientalism. Sebbar's main aim is to force the reader to rethink the colonial process and its aftermath in light of new paradigms. This essay examines the diverse strategies of reappropriation used by the author to undermine and subvert the Westernised topos of female representations dating back to the colonial era which imprison Maghribian women within both patriarchal and neocolonial spaces. The focus is on Sebbar's most famous work, the Sherazade trilogy, to show that the author promotes a new feminist social writing in which Maghribian women's roles are redefined and new visual codes are constructed. Rather than being a vehicle for the imprisonment of Oriental women, the Orientalist pictorial tradition of the West becomes for Sebbar's female protagonists the impetus for their journey of self‐discovery and path toward freedom
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Criminology · Identity (music · Immigration · Imprisonment · Life writing · Literature · Narrative · Orientalism · Sociology · Topos theory · Trilogy · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · North African History and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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