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Tactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem

Jane E. Evans

Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. 230 pp. (Francopolyphonies 9)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3176-0                 Paper
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Tactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem, an inquiry into how silence may be used to challenge a gender-differentiated power system, relies on Michel de Certeau’s model of strategies and tactics applied to a postcolonial assessment of both Algerian literature in French as well as Algerian women’s stereotyped silence. This book analyzes the relationship between tactical silence and freedom in the lives of Mokeddem’s female protagonists in all her novels, published between 1990 and 2008. The notion of deliberate silence also lends itself to a discussion of the reader’s efforts in comprehending Mokeddem’s textual silences as well as her exclusion of  certain topics from her writings.

Jane E. Evans is Associate Professor of French in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Texas at El Paso. Specializing in North African francophone fiction by women, Evans’ research interests include testimonial, trauma theory, and autobiographical approaches to literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Broaching Silence

Tactics and Strategies in Algerian Letters

Speaking of Silence

Manipulating Silence

Tactical Silence in Reading

Textual Silences and the Reader’s Tactics

Conclusion: The Threat of Silence

Bibliography

Index

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