Women’s Education in Colonial Algeria: Emancipation, Alienation, and the Aphasia of Love in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia (1985)
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 4, Number2. May 2020 Pp. 233 -239
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no2.17
Women’s Education in Colonial Algeria: Emancipation, Alienation, and the Aphasia of
Love in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia (1985)
Ahlem Harrat
LLC Lab
Department of English
Faculty of Letters and Languages
Abou Bekr Belkaïd University
Tlemcen, Algeria
Senouci Meberbeche Faiza
Department of English
Faculty of Letters and Languages
Abou Bekr Belkaïd University
Tlemcen, Algeria
Abstract:
This paper examines the contradictory yet complementary forces that connect women’s spatial liberation to the colonial power’s institutions. It explores the cacophony between women’s education, emancipation, and alienation in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia (1985). It argues that spatial mobility bears the potential to challenge patriarchy and colonial violence. Djebar’s struggle to reconcile with or condemn her Western education foregrounds the ambivalent relationship the author entertains with the vehicle of her empowerment. The appropriation of the language of the other equips the schoolgirl with the instruments needed to subvert extra-Islamic traditions, and to regender the history of Algeria by voicing the stories of her matriarchs, withal, it sentences her to an aphasia of love.
Keywords: Aphasia, Emancipation, French school, Quranic school, Spatial Liberation.
Cite as: Harrat, A., & Meberbeche-Senouci, F. (2020). Women’s Education in Colonial Algeria: Emancipation, Alienation, and the Aphasia of Love in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia (1985). Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies 4 (2) 233 -239.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no2.17
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