Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Morocco's New Voices: Women Writers and the Socio-Political and Cultural Landscape -- 2 Mernissi and Scheherazade in Dialogue: Rereading and Acts of Subversion -- 3 The Myth of the Silent Woman -- 4 Transgressive Narratives -- 5 A Prison Narrative: Female Memory and a Woman Called 'Rachid' -- 6 The Female Body and the Body Politic: Harem and Hammam -- 7 Women and the City -- 8 Scheherazade's (Moroccan) Sisters: The Poetics of Identity and Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary
Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation
