TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alba,Sonia
TI  - Tunisian women's writing in French: The fight for emancipation from Ben Ali's rise to power to the eve of the Tunisian Revolution, 1987-2011 
SN  - 978178976039
AV  - PQ3988.5.T8 A43 2019
U1  - 840.9/9287 23
PY  - 0000///
CY  -  ,  
PB  -  
KW  - Tunisian literature (French)
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Tunisia
KW  - Politics in literature
KW  - In literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-203) and index; Introduction  - The "Arab world" and the perserverance of stereotypes -- Tunisia: overview -- Why literature and why women's literature? -- On language  -- On exile  -- On counterpublic theory  -- Authorial intention and the defence of anonymity -- Shame and punishment in the autobiographical novel la retournée by Fawzia Zouari and in the novel Leïla ou la femme de l'aube by Sonia Chamkhi -- Biographical information, synopsis of texts and narrative voices -- The protagonists' "retournement"  shame 55 -- The protagonists' "retournement"  punishment  -- The contribution to a subaltern counterpublic in Tunisia by Zouari and Chamkhi  -- Not literature, only "almost" literature: essay writing in Une force qui demeure by Hélé Béji and in Les arabes, les femmes, la liberté by Sophie Bessis -- Unsettling the modernity vs. tradition debate -- The challenging of persistent traditional gender norms by Béji and Bessis  -- The contribution to a subaltern counterpublic in Tunisia by Béji and Bessis  -- The personal is political: old adage, new media. blog writing in a Tunisian girl by Lina ben Mhenni and in Nadia from Tunis by "Nadia"-- Definition of genre: the blog or modern day diary -- The intimate dimension of blog writing  -- The political dimension of blog writing -- The contribution to a subaltern counterpublic in Tunisia by Ben Mhenni and Nadia  -- Conclusion
ER  -