Yanyuan Bai

Yanyuan Bai

29 May 2023

Assia Djebar, Female voice, Identity, Postcolonial writing.

Being a former French colony, the Maghrib region in Africa is deeply influenced by its colonial history. During its struggle against colonial oppression and its pursuit of national identity, literature writing has been regarded as a weapon of national liberation by many North African writers, particularly female writers, among whom Assia Djebar, known as Lady Maghrib, was an important representative. Based on her personal experience and from a female perspective, her works show the unremitting struggle of Arab women in North Africa in the post-colonial era to regain their voice, fight for their freedom and rebuild their identity. This paper is a case study on Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement, a collection of short stories. Through an interpretation of the hybrid space of text forms and content, this paper explores how Djebar breaks through the false facades and deconstructs the identity of Muslim women misinterpreted by the West, thus restoring the image of Muslim women as representatives of the new world, and releasing women's voice from the double oppression of colonial and masculine discourses. 

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