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AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 4, Number2. May 2020 Pp. 233 -239
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.
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.
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Ahlem Harrat is a doctoral student at Abou Bekr Belkaïd University of Tlemcen majoring in comparative literature. She holds a master degree in language, literature, and civilization of the Anglophonic world from Badji Mokhtar University of Annaba where she worked as an ESP
teacher. She currently works as an assistant teacher of English literary studies at the department of English, Abou Bekr Belkaïd University of Tlemcen. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9548-4321
Prof. Faiza Senouci Meberbeche is a full professor at the department of English, University of Abou Bekr Belkaïd Tlemcen. She is the head of a doctorate research project on “Postcolonial Studies.” She is also the head of two national research projects (CNEPRU and PRFU), and a
member in the PNR research project. Her field of interest is mainly concerned with: Culture, Identity, and Gender Studies. https://orci.org/0000-0001-5153-9987
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