TY  - DATA
AU  - Harsh,Mary Anne
AU  - Marx-Scouras,Danielle
TI  - From muse to militant: Francophone women novelists and surrealist aesthetics 
U1  - DZ843.209 23E
KW  - Mechakra, Yamina
KW  - Djebar, Assia
KW  - جبار، آسية
KW  - LITTERATURE MAGHREBINE D'EXPRESSION FRANCAISE
KW  - LITTERATURE FEMININE
KW  - ROMAN
KW  - ALGERIE
N1  - Ph. D. : Romance Languages and Literatures : The Ohio State University : 2008; Bibliogr. p. 248-263
N2  - In 1924, André Breton launched the Surrealist movement in France with his publication of Manifeste du surréalisme. He and his group of mostly male disciples, prompted by the horrors of World War I, searched for fresh formulas for depicting the bizarre and inhumane events of the era and for reviving the arts in Europe, notably by experimenting with innovative practices which included probing the unconscious mind. Women, if they had a role, were viewed as muses or performed only ancillary responsibilities in the movement. Their participation was usually in the graphic arts rather than in literature. However, in later generations, francophone women writers such as Joyce Mansour and Suzanne Césaire began to develop Surrealist strategies for enacting their own subjectivity and promoting their political agendas. Aside from casual mention, no critic has formally investigated the surreal practices of this sizeable company of francophone women authors. I examine the literary production of seven women from three geographic regions in order to document the enduring capacity of surrealist practice to express human experience in the postcolonial and postmodern era. From the Maghreb I analyze La Grotte éclatée by Yamina Mechakra and L'amour, la fantasia by Assia Djebar, and from Lebanon, L'Excisée by Evelyne Accad
UR  - http://www.fondation.org.ma/dsp/index/a411026-25
ER  -