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Le protectorat au Maroc: lieux et espaces littéraires féminins

Bouamer, Siham.   Washington University in St. Louis ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2016. 10141376.

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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.

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Considérant le protectorat français au Maroc comme un espace dynamique de productions littéraires féminines, j'examine l'écriture des voyageuses françaises (romancieres, poétesses et journalistes) au Maroc durant la période précoloniale et coloniale. Je considère ensuite les romans féminins marocains composés en français dans les années 80 qui ont revisité cette période historique et retravaillé ses nombreux discours. Je soutiens que les voyageuses (1906-1936) ont écrit dans un site littéraire colonial contraint dans lequel elles étaient tenues de suivre le discours hégémonique masculin et la mythologie coloniale, bien que dans un genre et un style acceptables pour les femmes. La thèse étudie également comment le protectorat marocain a constitué un espace littéraire de transgression en raison de la fluidité de sa définition. Je montre que les femmes écrivains ont pu créer un récit où elles ont pu déconstruire le canon orientaliste du discours colonial. Je conclus ensuite en soutenant que les écrivaines marocaines produisent un contre-discours aux plus dominants de cette période historique et tentent de détruire une grande partie de la mythologie coloniale et orientaliste. Ils font ainsi place aux voix émergentes ; des voix historiquement opprimées par un discours hégémonique eurocentrique et patriarcal.

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Subject
Literature;
Gender studies
Classification
0401: Literature
0733: Gender studies
Identifier / keyword
Language, literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Colonial; French; Morocco; Protectorate; Travel writing; Women
Title
Le protectorat au Maroc: lieux et espaces littéraires féminins
Alternate title
The Protectorate in Morocco: Feminine Literary Places and Spaces
Author
Bouamer, Siham
Number of pages
334
Publication year
2016
Degree date
2016
School code
0252
Source
DAI-A 78/01(E), Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
Country of publication
United States
ISBN
978-1-339-96762-2
Advisor
Metzidakis, Stamos
Committee member
Cuille, Tili Boon; Childs, Elizabeth C.; Ifri, Pascal; Perraudin, Pascale
University/institution
Washington University in St. Louis
Department
French Language and Literature
University location
United States -- Missouri
Degree
Ph.D.
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language
French
Document type
Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number
10141376
ProQuest document ID
1822177874
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1822177874