...Ariel M. Sheetrit Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula ( 1993 ; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman , 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice...

... to works in Arabic by Khnata Bennouna ( 1981 ) or Leila Abouzeid ( 1989 ) would have given more impetus to Mehta’s analysis of Miseria . In the section devoted to Guène, it is startling to read that Guène is a “French youth of color” (20). This neologism is controversial among French young men...

..., and disciplinary boundaries, the book offers a reading of three major novels from the postcolonial Maghrib with no restriction of geographic origin or lan- guage: ‘Am al-Fayl (Year of the Elephant) by Moroccan Leila Abouzeid, Ombre Sultane (A Sister to Scheherazade) by Algerian Assia Djebar...

... for literature in general and women’s literature in particular. From this discussion of the sociological and political context of literary production, Diaconoff moves to the works of specific authors, including Fatima Mernissi, Rajae Benchemsi, Sihim Benchekroun, Leila Abouzeid, and Nedjma (a pseudonym...

... for literature in general and women’s literature in particular. From this discussion of the sociological and political context of literary production, Diaconoff moves to the works of specific authors, including Fatima Mernissi, Rajae Benchemsi, Sihim Benchekroun, Leila Abouzeid, and Nedjma (a pseudonym...

... the experience of writing about their lives, and how their audiences receive such efforts. The Moroccan author Leila Abouzeid ( 2003 : 158), for example, has argued that it was harder for her to write autobiography as an Arab woman, because “uncovering one’s private life is considered bold and indecent in Arab...

... links to the Akhawat Al-Safaa journalistic practices. Journalistic writings included newspaper reports and magazine articles. These writings circulated widely among the edu- cated population. The Moroccan feminist writer Leila Abouzeid started her career as a journalist in the early...

... Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood .” Image and Narrative , no. 19 . www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/autofiction/abdo.htm . Abouzeid Leila . 1999 . “ Malamih al-hadatha .” In Suʾal al-hadatha fi-l-Riwaya al-Maghribiya , edited by ʿAllam ʿAbd al-Rahman , 28 – 30...