Unruly voices : narration of communal memory and the construction of gender and communal identity in Assia Djebar’s Far from Madina

Assia Djebar’s Far from Madina retells the stories of the women who appear on the margins of the earliest sources of Islamic history from a contemporary Muslim feminist’s perspective. Djebar uses formal elements of early Islamic historiography and relies upon classical Sunni sources. These techniq...

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Main Author: Davey, Jennifer Lynne
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5749