Reconciling Arabo-Islamic culture and feminist consciousness in North African women’s writing: Silence and voice in the short stories of Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar

This article sets out to explore the theme of silence and voice in selected short stories by two North African women writers, Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar. In their representations of women’s lives in Egypt and Algeria, respectively, both Rifaat and Djebar present different strategies employed by w...

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Main Author: Naomi Nkealah
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2018-02-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/4459