Representations of Women and Sexuality in Francophone North African Literature

本研究将考察来自摩洛哥和阿尔及利亚的法语文学对伊斯兰主义的兴起持不同意见的方式，同时经常否定妇女的许多生活现实及其与伊斯兰教的经历。在此过程中，本项目将探索当代作家们未被充分研究的方式，这些方式要么是通过提供下层声音的另类代表来挑战西方的权力和权利观念，要么是无意中强化殖民主义的比喻，限制了对伊斯兰教进行积极重新评估的机会。为此，本项目将比较摩洛哥作家Leïla Slimani和Abdellah Taïa与阿尔及利亚作家MouradDjebel和Kamel Daoud的近期作品（2005 - 2018），因为他们是独立后马格里布作家的同一代，使用法语大量参与这些主题（阿拉伯语和柏柏尔语是阿尔及利亚和摩洛哥的官方语言，但法语在创作和更广泛的知识辩论中被广泛使用）。该项目将分析他们的小说、散文和新闻，以探索文本的形式如何有助于我们对表现形式的理解的微妙变化。

This study will examine the ways in which Francophone literature from Morocco and Algeriaappears dissident to the rise of Islamism, whilst often negating the many lived realities of women andtheir experiences with Islam. In doing so, this project will probe the understudied ways in whichcontemporary authors either challenge Western notions of power and rights by offering alternat iverepresentations of subaltern voices, or unintentionally reinforce colonial tropes and limit theopportunity for a positive reassessment of Islam. To do so, this project will compare the recent works(2005 - 2018) of Moroccan authors Leïla Slimani and Abdellah Taïa with Algerian writers MouradDjebel and Kamel Daoud, as they occupy the same generation of post-Independence Maghrebi writersusing French to engage heavily in these themes (Arabic and Berber are the official languages in Algeriaand Morocco but French is widely used in creating writing and wider intellectual debate). The projectwill analyse their novels, essays and journalism to explore how the form of the text contributes to asubtle change in our understanding of representations.