Date of Award
Summer 8-15-2016
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Type
Dissertation
Abstract
Considering the French protectorate in Morocco as a dynamic space for women's literary productions, I examine the writing of French women travelers (novelists, poets and journalists) in Morocco during the pre-colonial and colonial period. I then consider Moroccan women's novels composed in French in the 80s that revisited this historical period and reworked its many discourses. I argue that women travelers (1906-1936) wrote in a constrained colonial literary site in which they were required to follow the masculine hegemonic discourse and colonial mythology, albeit in a genre and style acceptable for women. The thesis also investigates how the Moroccan protectorate constituted a literary space of transgression due to the fluidity of its definition. I show that women writers were able to create a narrative where they could deconstruct the orientalist canon of the colonial discourse. I then conclude by arguing that Moroccan women writers produce a counter-discourse to the more dominant ones in this historical period and attempt to destroy much colonial and orientalist mythology. In this manner they make room for emerging voices; voices historically oppressed by a hegemonic Eurocentric and patriarchal discourse.
Language
French (fr)
Chair and Committee
Stamos Metzidakis
Committee Members
Tili Boon Cuillé, Elizabeth C. Childs, Pascal Ifri, Pascale Perraudin
Recommended Citation
Bouamer, Siham, "Le Protectorat au Maroc: Lieux et Espaces Littéraires Féminins" (2016). Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 833.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/833
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Permanent URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.7936/K7HH6HFC