Journal | Il Tolomeo
Monographic journal issue | 22 | 2020
Research Article | Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes

Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes

Entre réécriture de l’Histoire et invention de soi

Abstract

The study of Maïssa Bey’s novel Surtout ne te retourne pas allows to examine how the Francophone novel represents an earthquake as a poetic, metaphorical and political shockwave. The novel is part of a literary tradition but also shows the singularity of the writing and the engagement of the Algerian novelist Maïssa Bey. It allows to examine the feminine agentivity in the context of the disaster camps in Algeria: from the ravaged space/country emerge the voices of women who enter into resistance to improvise, invent their lives and their identities. The earthquake allows them to free themselves, to take a subversive point of view at society and their status as women in an oppressive patriarchal society. The staged female characters arrogate to themselves the right to reread history and take their destiny back.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: April 11, 2020 | Accepted: June 19, 2020 | Published Dec. 22, 2020 | Language: fr

Keywords Agency • Women’s Literature • Postcolonial theory • Poetics and engagement • Maghreb Francophone Literature

Copyright © 2020 Lila Lamrous. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2020/22/025


Read this article


chevron_left chevron_right

downloadfile_download

  • file_download 36
  • search 307
  • format_quote 0

Table of contents